Quotes About Acceptance
We should always be grateful for the faults in our partner because if they didn't have those faults from the start, they would have been able to marry someone much better than us
~ Ajahn Brahm
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When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.
~ Ajahn Brahm
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To think that you will be happy by becoming something else is delusion. Becoming something else just exchanges one form of suffering for another form of suffering. But when you are content with who you are now, junior or senior, married or single, rich or poor, then you are free of suffering.
~ Ajahn Brahm
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Whatever you do in your life, Son, the door of my heart will always be open to you.
~ Ajahn Brahm
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any place you don't want to be is a prison.
~ Ajahn Brahm
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The secret of life is ... everything is out of control.
~ Ajahn Brahm
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If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world." – Ajahn Brahm
~ Ajahn Brahm
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Disengaging means you leave these things alone and you're not concerned or worried about them.
~ Ajahn Brahm
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Your job is to be free, not to carry around the so-called attainments or failures of the past.
~ Ajahn Brahm
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Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It's the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you. It's just people being people, the world being the world. Sometimes
~ Ajahn Brahm
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Fear is finding fault with the future.
~ Ajahn Brahm
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Whenever the current is stronger than you are, that is the time to go with the flow. When you are able to be effective, that is the time to put forth effort.
~ Ajahn Brahm
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Freedom is being content to be where you are.
~ Ajahn Brahm
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To think that you will be happy by becoming something else is a delusion. Becoming something else just exchanges one form of suffering for another form of suffering.
~ Ajahn Brahm
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The secret of life is… everything is out of control." – Ajahn Brahm
~ Ajahn Brahm
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But Buddha commanded Patacara to recover her presence of mind. Her madness left her, and she worshipped at Buddha's feet. "Death of people we love is inevitable," said the Buddha. "It is a waste of life to brood or become bitter. No one can shelter us from the fate that awaits us. It is therefore incumbent that we set off on the path to nibbana.
~ Ajahn Brahm
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If you see things with real insight, then there is no stickiness in your relationship to them. They come, pleasant and unpleasant, you see them and there is no attachment, They come and they pass. Even if the worst kinds of defilement come up, such as greed or anger, there enough wisdom to see their impermanent nature and allow them to fade away. If you react to them, by liking or disliking, that is not wisdom. You're only creating more suffering for yourself.
~ Ajahn Chah
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When light is produced, we no longer worry about getting rid of darkness, nor do we wonder where the darkness has gone. We just know that there is light.
~ Ajahn Chah
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Give up everything, even peace.
~ Ajahn Chah
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It's just what it is, it's natural, it's nature. It's just the way it is. And you're a witness to it, because you recognize you're in this position of the Buddho, or the knower, the witness.
~ Ajahn Sumedho
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you should try living inside the skin of someone with one of those doomed tattoos. In any case, it's not as if I have any great desire to live to a ripe old age, so it doesn't matter. If I can just live a short life, and live it fully, that's enough for me. Cry a little, laugh a little, and then it's over.
~ Akimitsu Takagi
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No puedo permitirme odiar a nadie. No tengo tanto tiempo
~ Akira Kurosawa
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So when my mother expressed her concern to me, I laughed it away, saying, "People who talk about dying don't die.
~ Akira Kurosawa
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I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.
~ Akira Kurosawa
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