Quotes About Acceptance

In this world there are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation.

But I started to realize that it doesn't begin like this, that anybody can be the target for prejudice, all you have to be is too something . Too short, too fat, too clever, too big, too small, too slow, too new, too different from what others think of as normal.

ou can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.

A man is never ugly.

I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted.

Zašto juriti po tragovima onoga što je ve? završeno? Majstor i Margarita

Why should we expect her to be exactly like ourselves? Lucia went on. How can we be sure that our way is better than any other from A Fair Barbarian

Human nature likes order; people find it hard to accept the notion of randomness. No matter what the laws of chance might tell us, we search for patterns among random events wherever they might occur—not only in the stock market but even in interpreting sporting phenomena.

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration. We don't feel natural or balanced. When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing has ever happened that didn't need to happen.

You're just suffering from the belief that there's something missing from your life. In reality, you always have what you need.

When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.

I often say that if I had a prayer, it would be this: God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen. I

If you think he's supposed to be different from what he is, you don't love him. In that moment you love who he's going to be when you're through manipulating him. He is a throwaway until he matches your image of him.

I don't know what's best for me or you or the world. I don't try to impose my will on you or on anyone else. I don't want to change you or improve you or convert you or help you or heal you. I just welcome things as they come and go. That's true love. The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.

There's only one thing harder than accepting this, and that is not accepting it.

Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.

Everyone is doing his job. No one is more valuable than another. The things in the world that we think are so terrible are actually great teachers. There's no mistake, and there's nothing lacking. We're always going to get what we need, not what we think we need. Then we come to see that what we need is not only what we have, it's what we want. Then we come to want only what is. That way we always succeed, whatever happens.

No one will ever understand you. Realizing this is freedom. No one will ever understand you—not once, not ever. Even at our most understanding, we can only understand our story of who you are. There's no understanding here except your own.

Whenever you mentally oppose what is, you're going to experience sadness and apparent separation. There's no sadness without a story. What is is. You are it.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it—it's just easier if you do.

When I listened within myself I saw that the world is what it is – nothing more, nothing less. Where reality is concerned, there is no "what should be." There is only what is, just the way it is, right now. The truth is prior to every story. And every story, prior to investigation, prevents us from seeing what's true.