Quotes About Acceptance

Por el quincuagésimo cumpleaños de mi padre me puse a pensar por un momento en la vida. En como nos dejamos mear en la sopa. Como les dejamos pasar absolutamente todo a los más grandísimos mierdas, porque nada "vale la pena ni el esfuerzo".

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

It's always okay to admit you are struggling. Why

people struggle because we don't know where we belong, and we always assume that home lies somewhere other than here and now, a mistake that sets us on an exhausting commute.

When we stop asking the question "Whose fault is it?" and start asking the question "How can I work with this now?" then we are truly stepping onto the path of taking responsibility for our karma. When

Feeling at home is the feeling that I can just be myself. It

If we are going to conquer materialism, we have to make the heartmind into a place in which the full range of human emotions can feel at home.

People's ways are all so different. It's rather infernal—trying to please everybody

Self-surrender sometimes has the potential for happiness. Submission never does.

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.

One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

I believe that I know and share the many sorrows and sad circumstances that a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them, I do not prolong such moments of agony. They pass through me, like life itself, as a broad, eternal stream, they become part of that stream, and life continues. And as a result all my strength is preserved, does not become tagged onto futile sorrow or rebelliousness.

We tend to forget that not only must we gain inner freedom from one another, but we must also leave the other free and abandon any fixed concept we may have of him in our imagination.

One should accept things as they are and not try to lift them to impossible heights; only if you let them be will they reveal their true worth.

I for one have ceased to cling to life and to things; I have the feeling that everything is accidental, that one must break one's inner bonds with people and stand aside for all else.

Ces choses là ne se racontent pas, on ne peut que les subir (308)

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

What are you thinking of?" he would cry. "You know already that you should not grieve over bad shots; learn now not to rejoice over the good ones. You must free yourself from the buffetings of pleasure and pain, and learn to rise above them in easy equanimity, to rejoice as though not you but another had shot well. This, too, you must practise unceasingly – you cannot conceive how important it is.

Slowly the reality of it all formed in my mind: we were expendable! It was difficult to accept. We come from a nation and a culture that values life and the individual. To find oneself in a situation where your life seems of little value is the ultimate in loneliness. It is a humbling experience.

Jesus is the descent of God to our lives, just as they are, not the ascent of our lives to God, hoping he might approve when he sees how hard we try.

Thomas Merton wrote, "it is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not 'what he ought to be.' If we do not first respect what he is we will never suffer him to become what he ought to be: in our impatience we will do away with him altogether."50

God at his best (and he always is)does not have favorite children