Stephen Levine Quotes

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

No one can travel your own road for you; you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems from my childhood. I grew up in a family with a system of religious beliefs handed down to me.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.

My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.

I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day.

There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.

Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.

You may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson that you must always make the path for yourself...There is no secret society out there that will tap you on your shoulder one night and show you the way.

The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.

My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness.

Life is a journey I don't have a map for.

I deal with spiritual truth which should never be sold and need never be bought. When you are ready it will be given.