Quotes from Franco Santoro

Acceptance means including everything and everyone. It is acknowledging what is and allowing it to be part of the wholeness to which it legitimately belongs no matter what it is. It is devoid of any judgement, and yet it also includes the judgement. It can be strategically located at the heart level, yet this heart level includes all other levels.

Acceptance may be seen as the first step in healing, though when there is true acceptance, this is not really a step. Acceptance is there whether you step forward, backward or remain where you are. Also when acceptance is total there is no need of any further step. Acceptance will suffice.

Whatever is going on, whether there is pain or joy, light or darkness, separation or wholeness, accept it! The Sun and the Moon oppose each other on a Full Moon. Just accept it! No need to take the side of the Moon or the side of the Sun. Hold them both, while also being aware of where you are, of your advantage point of observation. Acceptance is the deepest secret of all initiation processes, the most difficult to grasp and the easiest to practice.

A true dancer is not a dancer, it is all possible dancers, including all non-dancers, it is all and nothing at the same time, as well as someone or something, as a result of a conscious choice

Ordinary reality and human life is probably the most extraordinary development of all spaces and times. It shows and proves how the greatest fantasy and absurdity can be the only reality for billions of souls. The great gift we receive from our human reality, when we are ready to accept it, is the capacity to follow its example, allowing all our fantasies, even the most absurd, to become real.

The best time to finally be who you are, respond to your deepest calling and do what you truly want, appears as the worst time to be and do what you truly want. So if now seems to be the worst time, this may be your best chance.

Whatever you dream be aware that it is just a dream. Yet, since there are infinite parallel universes, whatever you dream must be real somewhere in the multiverse. And if it is real, no matter where, then it is not a dream anymore.

The definitions of ourselves, of others and of everything that surrounds us prevent us from being and understanding who we are, keeping us prisoners of a separate reality based on definitions. We define ourselves and others incessantly with words, judgments, labels based on appearance, age, sex, race, culture, income, intelligence, character, etc. Who are you and who are others beyond their definitions? Please do not answer!

The key to become who you want to be is to understand and accept who you already are.

Our greatest dreams and desires abide in the mental and spiritual realm. In order to transfer them in the physical plane we need to invert subject and object. You will receive from the world what you deeply long to receive the day when you give to the world what you deeply long to receive. Today could be that day.

We are interested in what we love. We love what we are interested in. What we are interested in also loves us and is interested in us. And the way this interest and love unveils is one of the major mysteries of life.

Human beings could be defined as the keepers of a wall of separation dwelling at the threshold between dimensions longing to meet. As long as we insist being attached to the wall, these dimensions will keep on causing destruction and misery in our life. All human pain and troubles are basically due to our stubbornness in preserving this wall.

It takes only a few seconds to acknowledge a smile full of love, and yet those few seconds can be a gateway into an eternity full of love.

We are afraid of the unknown, of what is beyond our perception of reality, which is why we buy into consensus reality, pretending to know who and where we are, what is real and unreal. Yet the unknown is waiting for each one of us behind the corner and sooner or later it will prevail. Then, of whom we pretend to be, of where we are, nothing will be left.

If you are looking for something that you have never found so far, the first step is to get lost.

Do you want to know who you are? But if you don't know who you are, who is it that wants to know who you are? You can hardly know who you are if you don't know who wants to know who you are.

You have more friends within than without… Yet you also have more enemies within than without. As a matter of fact, all your friends and enemies are within! And also those who are neither friends nor enemies. They are all within. Everyone and everything is within. So who's out there? Out there, there is just yourself.

On the inner and spiritual level, we are all united even if we do not want it. On the outer and material level, we are all separate, even if we do not want it. The art of healing involves the management of this paradox.