Quotes About Acceptance

Yet I have said over and over again that there is no "right" or "wrong" in the universe. A thing is not intrinsically right or wrong. A thing simply is.

You don't know how to love without condition.

What you resist, persists. What you look at disappears. That is, it ceases to have its illusory form. You see it for what it Is. And what Is can always be changed. It is only what Is Not that cannot be changed. Therefore, to change the Isness, move into it. Do not resist it. Do not deny it.

Difficult as it may be for some people to imagine, God does not, we repeat here for emphasis, prefer Baptists over Hindus, Catholics over Jews, Muslims over Mormons, or any religion over any other religion. God does not even prefer those who believe in God over those who do not believe in God. These are not God's ideas. These are the ideas of human beings who think that these are God's ideas.

Father, help me never to place judgment upon another and then only upon the merit therein.

You will never disserve your relationship—nor anyone—by seeing more in another than they are showing you. For there is more there. Much more. It is only their fear that stops them from showing you. If others notice that you see them as more, they will feel safe to show you what you obviously already see.

Finally, don't try to "get out" of anything. What you resist, persists. I

Jesus' great gift was that he saw everyone as who they truly are. He refused to accept appearances; he refused to believe what others believed of themselves. He always had a higher thought, and he always invited others to it.

Your refusal to contemplate your own death leads to your refusal to contemplate your own life.

si te vieras como Dios te ve, sonreirías mucho.

Acceptance of something places you in control of it. That which you deny you cannot control, for you have said it is not there. Therefore what you deny controls you.

There is nothing in your reality to hold onto. Yet if you do choose the illusion of your life over ultimate reality, you may simply recreate it—just as you created it to begin with. In this way you may have in your life what you choose to have and eliminate from your life what you no longer wish to experience. Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place.

I tell you, before the cock crows, you will deny Me three times. Every thought of your Self as smaller than you really are is a denial of Me. Every word about your Self that puts you down is a denial of Me. Every action flowing through your Self that plays out a role of "not-good-enough," or lack, or insufficiency of any kind, is a denial indeed. Not just in thought, not just in word, but in deed.

On the other hand, your will is My Will. First, because I know it. Second, because I accept it. Third, because I praise it. Fourth, because I love it. Fifth, because I own it and call it My Own. This means you have free will to do as you wish—and that I make your will Mine, through unconditional love.

Even a thought that says I don't want something? If you don't want it, why think about it? Don't give it a second thought. Yet if you must think about it—that is, if you cannot not think about it—then do not resist. Rather, look at whatever it is directly—accept the reality as your creation—then choose to keep it or not, as you wish.

There are those who say that to know God you must overcome all earthly passions. Yet to understand and accept them is enough. What you resist persists. What you look at disappears.

To live your life without expectation—without the need for specific results—that is freedom. That is Godliness. That is how I live.

Radite ono što želite. Radite ono što vas odražava, predstavlja, kao ve?u viziju vašeg ja. Ako želite da se ose?ate loše, ose?ajte se tako. Ali nemojte da osu?ujete niti okrivljujete jer ne znate zašto se nešto doga?a, niti sa kojim ciljem. Upamtite slede?e: to što okrivljujete ?e okriviti vas, i to što osu?ujete - jednog dana ?ete postati.

Enlightenment begins with acceptance, without judgment of "what is.

When you bring an end to judgment, you bring an end to an entire way of living. This is no small thing. This is a life changing shift in attitude and behavior. This is a miracle.

You must learn to live within the contradiction.

The moment you surrender to love and allow it to lead you to exactly where your soul wants to go, you will have no difficulty.

Denial is the mechanism here. And nowhere is denial more insidious than in self-denial.

Most important of all, do not be afraid. You cannot "die" in any event, so there is nothing to be afraid of. Be aware of The Process unfolding, and quietly know that everything is going to be okay with you.