Quotes About Acceptance

I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something.

I had never been his equal. To him, perhaps, any deep acceptance of equality was impossible. He saw only those were there to be saved, and those who did the saving.

Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was pulling into the station. My bad mood evaporated. I entered the car smiling, certain that there would be more missed trains in my life, more closed doors in my face, but there would always be another train rumbling down the tracks in my direction.

I love myself enough to be who I am.

I have many gay friends. We have talked at great length and in depth about homosexuality, and to anyone who thinks that being gay is a choice, I want to go on record as saying that they couldn't be more wrong. No one wakes up one morning, at age 12 or 19 or 30, looks in the mirror, and says, "Yes, I think I'll be gay." Just as no one decides to be straight.

There is no once and for all moment when we can say that at last we are whole, the past is buried and over, the hurts forgotten, the wounds healed. Instead we find that it is to be a search that we must expect to continue throughout our lives.

but instead of letting yourself go to where you want to be, you beat the drum of what-is, and so you hold yourself apart from your expansion—and you feel terrible while you do it.

True Allowing is maintaining your own balance, your own joy, no matter what they are doing.

It Is Impossible to Control Conditions That Others Have Created

What feels like love, is—and what feels like hate is not love.

The expansion of the Universe and the evolution of all species is dependent on contrast. How could you ever decide what you do want, without living some of what you don't want? And so, be easy on yourself! Do not try to hold yourself to the impossible standard of only being in a place where everything is exactly as you want it to be. If you could do that you would cease to exist.

I see myself surrounded by others who, like me, want growth; and who are drawn to me by my willingness to allow them to be, do, or have whatever they want while I do not need to draw into my experience those things that they may be choosing that I do not like.I

Your work is to consume your Now with the thought that feels best, wherever you stand, whether you are looking in the past, present or future.

When you're able to acknowledge that many people are choosing different things; they believe differently; they want differently; they act differently, and when you understand that all of that adds to a more perfect whole, and that none of that threatens you-because the only thing that affects you is what you're doing with your own valve-then you move about freely and joyously.

The third Law, the Art of Allowing, says: I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are.

If you are resisting anything, you are focused upon it, pushing against it, and activating the vibration of it—and therefore attracting it.

One who does not condemn, never has to forgive. Your Inner Being will never forgive you because your Inner Being has never condemned you. Abraham -- G 6/13/92

The appreciation that Source feels for you, never-endingly, will wrap you in a warm blanket of worthiness if you will allow it.

What kind of god or goddess places a limit on love?

You want peace so badly and in the wanting of it there is no peace. Only when the wanting stops will you discover that peace has been there all along.

Morning. Vast. Imprecision. Fog has covered everything in gray absolute. This has lasted. Doubt looms over the mind. Absence is harder to accept than death.

There should be an age limit for patients, he thinks as he takes off his shoes. You just have to say to them, "You lived long enough. From now on, think of what's left as a bonus, a gift without an exchange slip. It hurts? Stay in bed. It still hurts? Wait: Either you'll die or it'll pass.

When I ask him if he thinks there's a moral to his story, he says he's sure there must be, but doesn't know exactly what it is. "Maybe," he says after a short pause, "it's that this world is full of lizards, and even though there's nothing we can do about it, it is always helpful to find out how big they are.

She had this vague look in her eyes, half-disappointed, half what's-the-difference. Like someone who realized he bought skim milk by mistake and doesn't have the energy to take it back.