Quotes About Acceptance

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Grief. The state of mind brought about when love, having lost to death, learns to breathe beside it. See also love.

What keeps me from seeking Catherine's help is that unlike other psychological problems, what happened to Amy, and to all of us, is real. The monster is real. And while there may be strategies that help Ginny and me feel a little better rather than a little worse, we will never feel right again. No analysis or therapy will change that.

I began to discover that my healing theology of twenty years was not really based on Scripture, but on my erratic healing experiences and what others had taught from their erratic experiences. Because my experiences had matched theirs, I accepted what I heard as being the truth, without serious examination and comparison with Scripture.

Sometimes love is hard. The more you practice loving yourself, it becomes second nature. Love yourself no matter what."

just as vivid—I slowly let go of my prejudices and came to accept, like Hamlet after seeing his father's ghost, that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy. Since then, I have helped or watched literally thousands of people go through similar experiences—life-changing journeys into psychic memory that help illuminate—and heal—the traumas of the present.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

To let go is not to criticize and regulate anybody, but to try to become what I dream I can be. To let go is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future. To let go is to fear less and love myself more.

To let go is not to be protective. It's to permit another to face reality.

To let go is not to be in the middle arranging the outcome, but to allow others to affect their own destinies. To let go is not to be protective. It's to permit another to face reality.

To let go is to fear less and love myself more.

All we know about ourselves comes from the way people loved us.

that if she clears her mind down to the deepest level then three things will happen: she'll never be afraid; it will be easier to love people; and it will be easier to die.

There is...a golden alpine field within each of you, a place where you are bathed in approval, not because of anything particular you have done, but simply because of your own sacred nature. If you had a president who could show you the route to that place, what a difference it would make in your lives, and in the culture of the world!

I am not one of these people who wants everyone to live the way I live. What causes more trouble on our troubled earth than people like that?

God couldn't possibly love my father and hate my mother, or vice versa; that God was bigger than our ideas about him and greater than any name we might call him.

I have tried, I still try, to do what I can to ease the suffering on this earth, and I'm sure you do the same. The rest of it we have to allow to be, as painful as that is for us. We have to care for ourselves and our loved ones. We have to serve others to the extent we are able. And the rest of it we have to allow to be. It is awful, is it not, the human predicament? Awful and beautiful.

Micronesians changed things inside themselves and let the planet be.

If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.

You ask a certain question again and again, in a sincere fashion, and the answer appears. But, in my experience, at least, that answer arrives according to it's own mysterious celestial timing, and often in disguise. And it comes in a way you're not prepared for, or don't want, or can't at first, accept.

if Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.

I decided that if I was worth anything as a person, I ought to be able to let her be with what it was she had to be with then: not urge her to fight it if she was tired of fighting, not ply her with hope, not make her think about who might be upset or worried, not ask anything of her, nothing, just be alive with her while she was still alive.

You can never tell you the mountain will allow and who it will not.