Quotes About Acceptance

Lei odia il piacere degli altri, Clelia, questo è il fatto. Lei Clelia fa male. Lei odia se stessa. E pensare che è nata di razza. Faccia allegria intorno a sé, smetta il broncio. ll piacere degli altri è anche suo...

Vermek bir tutku, neredeyse bir kusurdur. Kendisine bir ?eyler verebilece?imiz bir kimsemiz olmas? gerekir.

Der schicksalsgebundene Mensch ist nicht frei

Vecchi si nasce, – dissi, – non si diventa mica.

By now I've grown used to my destiny and I let the days pass, like the man already wet who lets the rain pummel him.

The recompense for having suffered so is that then one dies like a dog.

Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos

Although we may hate ourselves, at the same time we find our self-hatred a kind of occupation. In spite of the fact that we may dislike what we are and find that self-condemnation painful, still we cannot give it up completely. If we begin to give up our self-criticism, then we may feel that we are losing our occupation, as though someone were taking away our job.

The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but to see it as just facing the facts of life.

Eventually we must give up trying to be something special.

We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our "self-improvement.

when we appreciate reality, it can actually work on us.

However, maitri is not just being kind and nice. It is the understanding that one has to become one with the situation. That does not particularly mean that one becomes entirely without personality and has to accept whatever the other person suggests. Rather, you have to overcome the barrier that you have formed between yourself and others. If you remove this barrier and open yourself, then automatically real understanding and clarity will develop in your mind.

Unfortunately there are many kinds of psychotherapy and many psychotherapists involved with trying to prove themselves and their own theories rather than working with what is. In fact they find it very frightening to work with what is.

The ultimate implication of the words "peace on earth" is to remove altogether the ideas of peace and war and to open yourself equally and completely to the positive and negative aspects of the world.

When you begin to enjoy the discipline of warriorship, when it begins to feel natural, even though it may still feel very imperfect, that is the time to let go.

That is one definition of the setting-sun mentality: trying to conquer the earth so that you can ward off reality

Gone, gone, gone beyond, completely exposed, awake, so be it.

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

There are odd things in life, and one of them is pain. The odd thing about pain is this: you can't avoid it. You just can't. Maybe if you lived in a sealed room your whole life you could, but that would be lonely and cause you emotional pain, and it might mean you've been kidnapped, so...just don't live sealed rooms. Also...you can't avoid pain.

Because we all make mistakes, we also know that everyone else makes mistakes. So, within reason, we don't judge each other on the mistakes we make. We judge each other on how we deal with those inevitable mistakes.

It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.