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Quotes from Against the Stream — Noah Levine

born 1971 United States

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Those who understand the way it is, rather than the way they wish it were, are on the path to freedom.

Against the Stream (2007)

Spiritual revolutionaries must be committed not to what is easiest, but to what is most beneficial to themselves and the world.

Against the Stream (2007)

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

Against the Stream (2007)

The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

Against the Stream (2007)

Experience each moment as if it were the first sensation of its kind ever. Bring childlike interest and curiosity to your present-time experience.

Against the Stream (2007)

Sitting still is a pain in the ass.

Against the Stream (2007)

The Dalai Lama is rumored to have said that being able to have sex without any attachment would take the level of attainment of being able to eat either chocolate cake or dog shit without any preference between the two.

Against the Stream (2007)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Noah Levine (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.