Quotes About Acceptance

That was my big realization twenty years ago. It all passes. Here I am at the bathroom door, and how can I ever get to the sink? How can high school ever end, how can I ever finish college, how can I ever be married? But then I'm at the sink, I'm back out the door, I have a Ph.D., I'm married with three kids, and twenty years have passed. Here I am alive, and how can I ever die? But I will, I know I will, I know it in my soul.

my favorite Zen saying," said Dee. "Once you're born, the worst has already happened.

I could not look on Death, which being known,Men led me to him, blindfold and alone.

The toad beneath the harrow knowsExactly where each tooth point goes;The butterfly upon the roadPreaches contentment to that toad.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

There's no jealousy in the grave.

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

Answer: Because it's Life, darlings! Every loaf of bread must have its heel.

One of the good things about a Catholic church is that it isn't respectable," she had told Richard. "You can find anyone in it, from duchesses to whores, from tramps to kings.

I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks.

I think there are only two ways to live in this place,' said Sister Philippa, 'you must either live like Mr Dean or like the Sunnyasi; either ignore it completely or give yourself up to it.

Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.

Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you're always flying off to blue perfection?

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Come, whoever you are! Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. This is not a caravan of despair. It doesn't matter if you've broken your vow a thousand times, still and yet again come!

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill, let yourself fall ill.

I don't regret how much I love, and I avoid those who repent their passion.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.