Quotes About Acceptance

Instead of walking around with the feeling that we do not have enough, that there is never enough, that we are not enough, we can recognize that the world is in fact magically providing, with just what it is providing.

I believe that there is only one kind of love—real love—trying to come alive in us despite our limiting assumptions, the distortions of our culture, and the habits of fear, self-condemnation, and isolation that we tend to acquire just by living a life.

Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.

it's human nature to want to seize control when the people we love are suffering. But trying to impose our personal agenda on someone else's experience is the shadow side of love, while real love recognizes that life unfolds at its own pace.

Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.

Everyone Can Play is now the precept I live by. We may not agree with one another. We may argue. We may compete. But everybody gets to play, no matter what. We all deserve a shot at life.

When we truly allow ourselves to feel our own pain, over time it comes to seem less personal. We start to recognize that what we've perceived as our pain is, at a deeper level, the pain inherent in human existence.

When we approach the journey acknowledging what we do not know and what we can't control, we maintain our energy for the quest.

When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.

No matter what we think we should do, I don't think you can coerce yourself into loving your neighbor—or your boss—when you can't stand him. But if you try to understand your feelings of dislike with mindfulness and compassion, being sure not to forget self-compassion, you create the possibility for change.

When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love.

You don't have to love yourself unconditionally before you can give or receive real love.

Thich Nhat Hanh: "To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future," he says. "The idea is simply not to allow yourself to get lost in regrets about the past or worries about the future.

IF WE TRY to block off or deny a big part of what we experience, our wakeful, connected relationship to ourselves gets sharply whittled down. How then can we possibly feel alive?

The heart contracts when our bodies are overcome by shame.

A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know.

Awareness levels the playing field. We are all humans doing the best we can.

Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening.

So often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to love—perhaps our greatest challenge as human beings.

Living in a story of a limited self—to any degree—is not love.

When we don't allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience.

Love simply, perpetually exists and that it's a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it.

real love seeks to find authentic life, to uncurl and blossom.

I had wanted my pain to disappear. I didn't want to feel the constriction of fear in my throat, the sadness of a child all alone in the world. But the transformation I was seeking wasn't to be found in what happened to the pain; it would be found in what happened within me in relationship to it.