The question isn’t whether the world is perfect.The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it?
– Eric Michael Leventhal
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- Sooner or later on this journey, every traveller faces the same question: Are you a human intending to be a god, or a god pretending to be human? – Eric Michael Leventhal
- What matters in relationship isn’t how you see each other, but whether you see each other. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- Either nobody’s perfect,or everyone is. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question. – Nikolai A Berdyaev
- when you avoid one life question, you answer another life question. The question is : what life question do you want to answer? – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. – BF Skinner
- The fact of your heart’s enfoldment in mine is evidence enough that there is, underneath it all, some hidden order to this world. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- We free our own mindseach time we pause to wonderwhether we are free. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- To experience what isn’t, love what is. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- Quem pausa para admirar a beleza se torna tambem belo.(One who pauses to admire beauty becomes, himself, beautiful.) – Eric Michael Leventhal
- Change happens for youthe moment you want somethingmore than you fear it. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- Synchronicity is the soul’s reminder of authorship. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call ‘reality’ may be the greatest myth of all. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- True wisdom is being able to say ‘it is what it is’ with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- Love is the highest form of meditation. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- All work done with love is healing work. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- He who fights is powerless, but he who loves is power itself. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- It doesn’t matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- Every ‘no’ is a ‘yes’ to something. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- Acceptance is the vessel of realization. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- Resistance is the subtlest form of attachment. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- To the ego, love is poison. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- The purpose of life is to reach a point where you can say ‘yes’ to all of it. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- The degree of freedom we enjoy outwardly is a reflection of the degree of love we cultivate inwardly. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- Wisdom may teach you that all places are one, but love shows you how to get there. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- The less human you feel, the more human you become. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- From a universal perspective, what you do matters less than how you feel about what you do. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- I searched for my Beloved in the strangest of places, until the day I realized I couldn’t take my eyes off Her. – Eric Michael Leventhal