Quotes About Acceptance

you already have everything you need to be peaceful, happy, and content right here and right now! Relax into this knowing, and affirm again and again:

Let go of a desire to force anyone or anything, and choose instead to consciously be part of the cyclical pattern of nature.

Think of the need to control as a signal to allow

Experiences of pain, loss, fear, anger, and even hatred seem to vanish when you remember that this is a part of the perfect blossoming of natural law; and there will soon be a time for comfort, peace, and love.

As you read the next two sections, please keep an open mind, even if what you read conflicts with what you've believed all your life!

All rights and wrongs of every description represent shoulds of one kind or another. And the shoulds get in your way, particularly when they conflict with another person's need to have his own as well.

As much as some people try to deny it, no one gets off this planet alive. Life, in fact, is a terminal disease.

The ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

no one is special or better than anyone else. This sentiment is echoed in the Christian scriptures: "[God] sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous" (Matt. 5:45).

release the need to control your life.

death is an insignificant detail that doesn't need to be consciously struggled with or dreaded.

Run your life on this concept: Each day is great. Where I am is just fine, and so is where I'm going. That's called growth motivation, and it's a choice you can make right now.

if you were a no-limit person, you'd understand that you've done everything in life the way you have because you were supposed to do it—otherwise you wouldn't have done it.

Permit the paradox of wanting the irritant to vanish and allowing it to be what it is. Look inward for it in your thoughts and allow yourself to feel it wherever it is and however it moves in your body.

let go of any ideas you have about controlling anything or anyone, including yourself.

we needn't presume to tell our Source what needs to be done to provide us with a happy, fulfilling life.

This is true for every aspect of your life: The more you push against it, the more resistance you create.

Being content with what you have

you get it by letting go.

Do not resist the natural course of your life.

Stop waiting for others to change. Ask yourself why others should be different simply because you would like it better if they were. Recognize that every person has a right to be whatever they choose, even if you irritate yourself about it.

Only when we are sick of our sickness shall we cease to be sick.

Move from wanting to see permanence in your life to realizing that all things change due to the nature of this being an ever-modifying world.

Begin to view your emotional life as independent of whatever anyone else does. This will free you from the chains of being hurt when others behave differently from the way you want them to.