Quote from Turning Toward the Mystery

Turning Toward the Mystery: A Seeker's Journey

by Stephen Levine 

HarperCollins Publishers, New York, New York     ©  2002   272 pp.

"The cultivation of loving-kindness made it increasingly clear that I could not let go of anything I did not accept.

Forgiveness finishes unfinished business.  I ask the forgiveness of anyone or anything that I may have caused pain, intentionally or otherwise.

Forgiveness was essential to the uncovering of my original nature. It was a primary letting go of the hindrances to seeing, such as identification with self-congratulating pride and shaming self-judgment.

To let myself be forgiven was like sandblasting away my armor.

Somedays it exposed the heart for hours. Sometimes it didn't last to the end of the sitting.  Sometimes I felt like I was wrestling with alligators. Sometimes I was eaten alive in identification with the wound, trying too hard or not hard enough."   (p. 94)



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