Quotes About Acceptance

Sorrow makes us all children again.

Sorrow makes us children again.

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

Treat everyone you meet as if they are God in drag.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can't see how it is.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.

I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.

If we had to accept the principle of numerical superiority while selecting our national bird, the choice would have fallen not on the peacock but on the common crow.'13

Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.

I do not consider anyone to be my disciple. I have never sought upadesh from anyone nor do I give ceremonial upadesh. If the people call themselves my disciples I do not approve or disapprove.

Let come what comes, Let go what goes, See what remains.

Grace is ever present. The only thing necessary is that you surrender to it. (p. 369)