Quotes About Acceptance

At some point the living must let go of the dead.

people fear what they do not understand.

Not being changed by prayer is sort of life standing in the middle of a spring rain without getting wet. It's hard to stand in the center of God's acceptance and love without getting it all over you.

The only people who get better are people who know that, if they never get better, God will love them anyway.

Our freedom has been taken away because we thought that we couldn't be free unless we were perfect.

It's not very smart to keep trying to do something you can't do and never will be able to do.

Perfectionism robs you of your freedom.

God will not only love you if you don't get better; he will teach you that getting better isn't the issue. His love is the issue.

There really is something neurotic about Christians who spend most of their time trying desperately to please a God who is already very pleased. They don't have any freedom, and they sometimes take away the freedom of others.

I can think of hardly anything that will kill your joy and freedom more than wearing a mask geared to get others to accept you because you are acting like them.

Pretending you aren't going to die is detrimental to your enjoyment of life. It is detrimental in the same way that it would be detrimental for a basketball player to pretend there was no end to the game he was playing. That player would reduce his intensity, adopt a lazy playing style, and, of course, end up not having any fun at all. Without an end, there is no game. Without being conscious of death, you can't be fully aware of the gift of life.

I was at a Byron Katie seminar once when I heard her say something I never forgot. She said, "Do you know what I love most about the past? It's over!

The wizard didn't give anything to the Tin Man that he didn't already have.

In just the same way, fear is merely the absence of love. If you can bring enough love, there is no more fear.

If you focus on the pain, and think of nothing but the pain, you will not get anywhere," Doug pointed out. "You have to accept the pain for what it is, and then focus completely on what you want. The more you focus on what you want, the less the pain matters." Owners focus on what they want. Victims focus on what they fear. And both positions are pure internal invention.

The notion that "no one is coming" was somehow terrifying to accept. The idea that no one was going to rescue me from my circumstances is an idea that I might never have accepted. That idea sounded too much like the final abandonment. It

And there is a crack in every story of "life is wonderful

We all know the maxim "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." It's because we want the horse to drink that we become frustrated, because it's literally not in our power to accomplish the job we've set out to do for ourselves.

this desire to hold on, to somehow stop change in its tracks, is the greatest source of woe and horror and trouble in our lives.

good' crystallised … breeds arrogance and hostility

To deny a concept is not to embrace its opposite.

T]houghts will arise. Don't be bothered by them. Don't think they're bad or that you shouldn't be having them. … If you leave them alone, they'll depart of their own accord. This is how to 'cease all movements of the conscious mind.' You cannot do it by the direct application of your will.

This moment is complete unto itself. There's nothing lacking in this moment

B]ecause of change, what we love continues to appear, and what we hate never lasts forever.