Quotes About Acceptance

But the hero lets the future take care of itself, because he knows the future never actually arrives. In reality, all there ever is, is one moment moving naturally and gracefully into the next, with or without the mind's ceaseless thoughts.

The way to living without judgments is simply to see the truth about them: They don't serve us or others. The ego leads us to believe they are important, relevant, and useful, and they just aren't. Once we see this, we are free to not indulge in them. They may arise in the mind out of habit, but eventually, if we don't give them our attention, this habit of thinking and talking about others will subside.

Nothing is ever lost in choosing love. Your judgments never worked anyway. They only created anger, hurt, and separation. When you see the truth of this, it becomes much easier to choose love over judgment.

Language such as "good" and "bad" and "I like" and "I don't like" divides the world into what you want and don't want. Then when life shows up in a way you don't like, you suffer. By wanting life to look a certain way, you cause your own suffering. The hero has seen how such dualities and desires create suffering and how suffering wouldn't exist without them.

We were never meant to be anything other than the way we are right now. True perfection is life just as it is.

Love thrives when we accept others as they are, while allowing them to grow, develop, and be as they are meant to be. This is the kind of environment that we, as parents, would hope to provide our children. Being there for others, supporting their growth, supporting them in their trials, and celebrating life with them is a great service to others.

What happened in the past was what it was, and no amount of speculation can change that. This rumination about reality is just the mind's way of not accepting a former now and its way of taking you out of the current now.

A book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published.

God wants us to have fat on our hips, stomach, thighs, and breasts. It was His clear intention. Does

Tanta gente se las ingeniaba para ignorar la miseria, aceptando las desigualdades como ley de vida. Y así habían sido las cosas desde siempre, pensaba. ¿Quién se atrevía a soñar en cambiar todo aquello?

A constructed situation is the room with the spider and the moonlight between the branches exactly in the moment when -- in answer to the demon's question: "Do you desire this once more innumerable times more?" -- it is said: "Yes, I do.

Things die, too, you know. And so, if they too have to die, well there it is, it is so much better to let them go

L'amore è amore, in qualunque modo si manifesti. Lui stesso aveva avuto modo di constatare come coppie omosessuali avessero vissuto delle storie con una delicatezza di sentimenti riscontrabile in altre più convenzionali.

Lei è l'amore...Quando lo trovi, da qualunque parti arrivi, accettalo come un dono e tienilo ben stretto...ha la capacità di farti sentire pieno di energia senza lasciarti la possibilità di capire quanto te ne stia in realtà togliendo.

Andare a caccia di ricordi non è mai un bell'affare. Qualunque cosa trovi sulla tua strada, rimane in ogni caso un nulla di fatto. Quelli belli non li puoi più catturare e quelli brutti non li puoi uccidere.

Thus, it is quite clear that things which the natural course of events, with its small, infrequent blows, could never teach the wise to bear with patience, the immensity of this calamity made even simple people regard with indifference.

No, young man, I don't envy you or your youth. All that you have to face and suffer is still ahead of you.

Freedom means freedom from judgment. Freedom from that which binds and holds one back. Freedom from misconception. Freedom from anything that is not in complete resonance and harmony.

A thing is complete when you can let it be.

Willingness to forgive frees the soul to laugh and cry and be The Beloved.

Yes, I still love him – I suppose. I suppose loving one's father is like living – one just does. About what he has done Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I could not even tell you – I could not find the words to tell you how terrible, how beyond everything terrible I think it is. And that it should be my father.…

There were various things which were absolutely essential to survival: it was essential to fill oneself completely with a determination to survive; it was essential to create in oneself a capacity for dissociating oneself to some extent from Treblinka; it was important not to adapt completely to it. Complete adaptation, you see, meant acceptance. And the moment one accepted, one was morally and physically lost.

A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.

Tu ne contrôles pas les choses qui arrivent, pire, tu n'es même pas capable de savoir si elles sont bonnes ou mauvaises.