Quotes About Acceptance

Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won't miss the one with your name on it.

Stay open. You may find your tribe where you least expect it.

You need nothing more than the experience you are having right now. It is enough. It is plenty. It is perfect just as it is. It was designed for you, given to you for your experience. All you have to do, and all you have ever had to do is accept this gift. Take it and let it in. Let yourself experience the present moment just as it is. It doesn't get any better than this. This is the simple truth the ego refuses to accept, and it will suffer as long as that is the case.

When you find yourself wanting a better moment -wanting something else in the future- it can be helpful to ask: What will that give me? We think we will finally be happy when that moment arrives. What we discover when we do get what we want is that even that wonderful moment disappears. Life keeps moving on, bringing us a mixture of what we like and don't like. Why not like- love - it all because it won't be here for long, it will never be this way again, and it's all you've got.

There are two possible experiences of every moment: the moment as experienced by Essence and the moment experienced by the ego. The ego's experience of the moment is struggle, conflict, effort, dissatisfaction, restlessness, and unease. Essence's experience of it is freedom, happiness, peace, acceptance, contentment, and joy. Either experience is possible in any moment, depending on whether we are identified with the ego or with Essence.

Not only is it not our business to change others, but it's also harmful to relationships to try to do so. Ideas are just not worth the price paid in love lost. Love is more important than any conditioned idea or belief, but if you take your conditioning more seriously than love, you will lose love. The other person will withhold love from you because it will be too painful for him or her to love you.

Love is the opposite of judgment. Love is acceptance. It is accepting our own judgments without acting on them and accepting other people's judgments and beliefs without reacting to them. The result of acceptance is peace. Therefore, the antidote to war is acceptance. If everyone would let everyone else have their beliefs, it would be possible for people to live in harmony.

What we resist persists.

have. Our true nature is steady, receptive, and accepting of everything that happens, including our own misguided conclusions and behaviors.

Our true nature is steady, receptive, and accepting of everything that happens, including our own misguided conclusions and behaviors.

because life is not designed to meet your desires and expectations. Life has its own purpose and its own plan. Life brings you the people it does for many reasons, which you may never understand. Your only choice is whether or not to love who Life brings you.

Love is possible only when you drop all ideas and beliefs and meet another just as he or she is showing up in the moment, fresh and new.

One of the qualities of our true nature besides being aware is that it is allowing and accepting. "Noticing" captures how consciousness touches the experiences of life but doesn't push them away, cling to them, judge them, or even evaluate them as good or bad, which are all features of the egoic self.

That judgments close hearts should be pretty obvious. Judgments come from a closed heart, so naturally they also cause others to close their hearts. Judgments are a perfect example of an internal reality, or climate, determining one's external reality. When you openly judge others, you will be judged in return, as predictably as the night follows the day.

The antidote to the stress and suffering caused by the egoic mind is letting everything be as it is.

antidote to judgment is accepting people the way they are and not imposing our desires and expectations on them. Our

When we relate from Essence, the dominant feeling is acceptance: You allow others to be the way they are. In fact, you celebrate how they are. This doesn't mean you might not dislike something about them, but the general feeling toward them is that everything is just right as it is.

Life unfolds as it will regardless of whether we like what's happening or not. By opposing life, we eventually learn this truth. We learn how impotent our opposition to life is and that this opposition causes only suffering. What's left is choosing to agree with life—to love whatever is, no matter what that looks like.

You are the Beloved you have been searching for, for so long.

love is allowing: You allow the person to be exactly the way he or she is without any reservations or desires for anything to be different than it is.

When things don't go as planned, simply asking, "Is it that important?" can be helpful. Answer this question from a place of being zoomed out: "Will this be important a year from now or several years from now? Will this be important on my deathbed?" Many of the things we get upset about wouldn't be important even moments or days later.

Life has its own purpose and its own plan. Life brings you the people it does for many reasons, which you may never understand. Your only choice is whether or not to love who Life brings you.

You drop your mental baggage because you see that it offers nothing of value but only takes you away from the experience of the beautiful being that you are.

The universal story is: "I'm not good enough. Life isn't good enough!" Built into everyone's story is an I that needs to strive to be good enough and to make life turn out right. When the me does succeed at something, that feeling of finally being good enough is all too soon replaced by the old drumbeat: "I'm still not good enough! Life still isn't good enough!