Quotes About Acceptance

When you are in a painful situation, look at it. If you look deeply enough and you don't get freaked out, you will see that there is beauty in everything. You will see that there is beauty in you.

If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

Let us not judge others, because we simply don't know that had we lived their life, we might be exactly the same.

Give yourself permission to be happy. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, what matters is what's going on inside you.

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.

Know and understand that there will be challenges and difficult times. Don't try to avoid them. Welcome them. Gratefully.

Choose, but don't want.

Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. Have I not told you all thought is creative?

To live your life without expectation-without the need for specific results-that is freedom. That is Godliness.

The way to reduce the pain which you associate with earthly experiences and events-both yours and those of others-is to change the way you behold them.

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let us down is because we believe those things and people shouldn't. Well, sorry, that's not life here on earth.

The only parts left of my original body are my elbows.

I don't think there's such a thing as a bad emotion. The only bad emotion is a stuck emotion.

Life isn't a balance between throwing out and inviting in.

Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.

When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.