Quotes About Acceptance

In reality, when you feel depressed, lonely, betrayed, or any unwanted feelings, this is an important moment on the spiritual path. This is when real transformation can take place.

This has been going on through the ages. They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world that escapes criticism. There never was and never will be, nor is there now, the wholly criticized or the wholly approved. Shakyamuni Buddha said that more than twenty-five hundred years ago, but it seems that some things never change.

Meditation is an invitation to notice when we reach our limit and to not get carried away by hope and fear.

We seem doomed to suffer simply because we have a deep-seated fear of how things really are.

If we find ourselves unworkable and give up on ourselves, then we'll find others unworkable and give up on them.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know. When things fall apart and we're on the verge of we know not what, the test for each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize. The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that's really swell.

Sabemos que todo es impermanente, que todo acaba agotándose. Aunque aceptemos esta verdad con el intelecto, emocionalmente nos produce una profunda aversión. Deseamos que todo sea permanente y esperamos que así sea. Nuestra tendencia natural es buscar seguridad, creer que podemos encontrarla.

Unintended consequences, he thought miserably. He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up and took over.

Every present anger derives from past weakness.

Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.

Anger is a wasted emotion.

... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don't know what to do with all those feelings.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Anger carries a person in your mind forever.The day U can stand in the room with some1 without being affected is the day you truly moved on

But a person can only keep reality - and anger - at bay for so long before the truth comes back again.

I don't hate people, i assume they are dead!

I still want to be angry, but I have to let my anger go.

Give me your past, all your pain, all your anger, all your guilt. Release it to me, and I will be a safe harbor for the life you need to leave behind.

Why was everyone so interested in her now? When it was too late to change anything? What was the point?

To ease the pain, erase the anger.

My emotions swirl like leaves caught in the breath of a dust devil, and the only thing I can seem to hold onto is the anger.