Quotes About Acceptance

Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*

It is an act of gracious generosity to accept a person based on what we know to be the truth about them, regardless of whether or not they are in touch with that truth themselves.

To surrender to God means to let go and just love.

If I'm convinced that I'm not good enough, I will have a difficult time accepting someone into my life who thinks I am. It's the Groucho Marx syndrome of not wanting to like anyone who would want me in their club. The only way that I can accept someone's finding me wonderful, is if I find myself wonderful. But to the ego, self-acceptance is death.

The heart's transformation is not attained through the mind—it's attained through surrender, authenticity, forgiveness, faith, honesty, acceptance, vulnerability, humility, willingness, nonjudgment, and other characterological values that have to be learned and relearned continuously.

So it is with you. The perfect you isn't something you need to create, because God already created it. The perfect you is the love within you. Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self, just as excess marble surrounded Michelangelo's perfect statue.

We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.

I needn't prove anything to anyone. I am blessed as a child of God.

All of a sudden, you're not too proud to ask for help. That's what it means to surrender to God.

The ego seeks intimacy through control and guilt. The Holy Spirit seeks intimacy through acceptance and release.

Similarly, if we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

That's why the miracle is a shift in our own thinking: the willingness to keep our own heart open, regardless of what's going on outside us.

We're affected by other peoples' lovelessness only to the extent to which we judge them for it. Otherwise we are invulnerable to the ego, as the Son of God is meant to be.

The other person doesn't have to consciously join you in the change. 'Whoever is saner at the time,' says A Course in Miracles, 'is to invite the Holy Spirit into a situation.' It doesn't matter whether or not another person shares our willingness to let God enter. Everything you need in life already exists inside your head.

I said to myself, "Marianne. Next time you're down on your knees, why don't you just stay there?

What we mentally refuse to permit others, we refuse ourselves. What we bless in others, we draw to us.

universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.

We're not at the mountaintop until any zone is comfortable. Love isn't love until it's unconditional.

We're not aligned with the Holy Spirit until people can behave in any way they choose to, and our own inner peace isn't shaken. There

Looking for Mr. Right leads to desperation because there is no Mr. Right. There is no Mr. Right because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us, and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.

It amuses me to think how angry I used to get when people wouldn't sign my peace petitions.

That every tear she felt like crying was a tear she had to cry, and she would know when she had cried enough when she didn't have any more tears left.

I surrender my attachment to lesser things.

Peace stems from forgiveness.