Quotes About Acceptance

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

solo la non conoscenza del futuro ci rende sopportabile il presente. Mi sono sempre stupito e continuo a stupirmi immensamente che gli uomini siano tanto smaniosi di conoscere il futuro. Sembra quasi che preferiscano l'infelicità alla felicità.

Meldungen stürzen die Welt nie um. Das tun die Tatsachen, die wir nun einmal nicht ändern können, da sie schon geschehen sind, wenn die Meldungen eintreffen. Die Meldungen regen die Welt nur auf, man gewöhne sie sich deshalb so weit als möglich ab.

The meaning of existence is existence, which insight, once accepted and affirmed, makes existence unbearable.

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

Amor fati: that is my innermost nature. And as regards my long sickness, do I not owe to it unutterably more than I owe to my health?

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best even of their blunders.

Friends may tell us, "Read your Bible" or "Pray about it." Some may suggest we talk with our minister. No matter how many outside sources we seek, there will be no relief for us until we, by ourselves, in our own minds and hearts, acknowledge our powerlessness. Then, and only then, will we begin to see that Step One is the beginning of a way out.

On a beau accuser l'Occident de répandre ses erreurs dans le monde entier, encore faut-il quelqu'un qui les accepte.

You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

You won't understand life and death until you're ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality.

We just need to feel we know, or we can't rest. And yet much of life is unknowable and will remain so. Lots

Rather than face what really is, we prefer to retreat and compare what we're living through with the way we think it oughta be. Suffering comes from the comparison between the two.

You can master tantric yogic poly-orgasmic Wonder Sex but you're still gonna die alone.

In order to deal with the fear of annihilation you have to face annihilation again and again and again. It's not enough just to understand this intellectually. It's not enough just to read about this. You need to watch yourself being annihilated right now. If you can manage to sit quietly as you disappear from existence moment by moment, then you can see it's really nothing to be afraid of. You gotta meditate. Nobody likes to hear that. But it's true.

But don't get too hung up on the future. The future's out of your control. Enjoy what's happening right now. Do what is appropriate, what is right, in the present moment and let the future be the future.

We live forever by practicing the Buddha Way right now. If we wind up being reborn after we pass from this life, that's fine. If not, that's okay too.

So I do fear death in the sense that I find the prospect of dying pretty scary. But I no longer fear that I will one day be annihilated and cease to exist.

Even if the whole universe is nothing but a bunch of jerks doing all kinds of jerk-type things, there is still liberation in simply not being a jerk.

Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are. Stop for a second and look at this in your life right now. It's important.

When you're alive there's nothing but life. When you die there's nothing but death. So when life comes, be alive. When death comes, die. You don't need to dodge either one, and you don't need to long for either one.

Dwelling on past mistakes is a way of reinforcing your ego. The ego can be strengthened just as well by dwelling on what's bad about you as it can by dwelling on what's good. In fact, for some of us — myself included — dwelling on what's bad about ourselves reinforces the ego much more effectively than dwelling on what's good.