Quotes About Acceptance

couldn't find it in my heart to believe her death would result in a complete annihilation; I think I accepted her body's death from the beginning, but there was another part of me that believed her mind, or her spirit, or something else that could not be defined, would never really

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Serene, I fold my hands and wait,Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea;I rave no more 'gainst time or fate,For lo! my own shall come to me.

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars....

SERENE, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For, lo! my own shall come to me.

I've noticed that there is danger in spending all this time writing about those "publicans and sinners" over there in the great and spacious building. If our spot near the tree of life becomes a Rameumptom where we congratulate each other on our chosen-ness and look down on everyone else, then we're occupying nothing more than a branch office of the great and spacious.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Cosmic Love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/dislike them or not.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

You can feel an emotion, just don't think that it's so important.

If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.

the important questions are answered by not liking only but disliking and accepting equally what one likes and dislikes. Otherwise there is no access to the dark night of the soul.

Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accordance with nature, in her manner of operation.

not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who were before unwilling to believe.

Children, who are dealt with more generously and more liberally by their fathers, do not hesitate to show them unfinished projects that they have only begun, or even spoiled a little. Even if they have not succeeded in doing quite what they wanted, they are confident that their obedience and readiness of mind will be accepted. Such children we ought to be, trusting confidently that our most lenient Father will approve of them, however small, rough, or imperfect they may be.

Hell is the denial of the ordinary...

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.

The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to.

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.