Quotes About Acceptance

Don't try to reform yourself; just see the futility of all change. The changeful keeps on changing while the changeless is waiting.

It does not matter much what happens, for ultimately the return to balance and harmony is inevitable. The heart of things is at peace.

Everything is okay in the end, if it's not ok, then it's not the end.

I was afraid of becoming used to the sorrow that had grown like a gnarled tree inside me.

Acceptance is the key to happiness. You need to surrender yourself to the truth. You won't be happy until you do.

To recover we must understand and accept impermanence. We must replace the reactive survival instinct of clinging, grasping, and attachment with the wise response of nonclinging, nonattachment, and compassion. In a world where everything is constantly being pulled beyond our grasp, clinging and grasping always result in the rope burns and unnecessary suffering that accompanies it.

We would all say that deep down, all we want is to be happy. Yet we don't have a realistic understanding of what happiness really is. Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure.

We could search the whole world and never find another being more worthy of our love than ourselves.

The truth is, the experience of forgiveness is a momentary release. We don't and can't forgive forever. Instead, we forgive only for the present moment. This is both good news and bad. The good part is that you can stop judging yourself for your inability to completely and absolutely let go of resentments once and for all. We forgive in one moment and get resentful again in the next. It is not a failure to forgive; it is just a failure to understand impermanence.

Difficult personalities are a mirror for the places where we get stuck in judgment, fear, and confusion.

Recovery is also the ability to inhabit the conditions of the present reality, whether pleasant or unpleasant.

Those who understand the way it is, rather than the way they wish it were, are on the path to freedom.

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

We come to understand the law of casuality - that is, we see that all beings are experiencing what they're experiencing based on their own actions and not by what we wish for them - and therefore we relax in a deep understanding and acceptance of the way things are.

The most important thing to remember is that we must live in the present, and if in the present moment we are still holding on to old wounds and betrayals, it is in this moment that forgiveness is called for.

If we cling now, we suffer later. If

Rather than reacting with our usual attachment or aversion, taking everything personally and feeling the need to do something about it, we relax into the experience, seeing it clearly and letting it be as it is.

True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

The next step in the process of liberation is to break this chain reaction of suffering whenever life is unpleasant and feeling content only when life is pleasurable.

All these feelings are unnecessary suffering caused by an imbalance between our instinctual drive for happiness and our instinctual need for survival. It is also very important to remember that the end of suffering does not mean the end of pain or difficulties, just the end of creating unnecessary suffering in our lives.

Was man verloren hat, findet sich manchmal wieder, aber was man aufgegeben hat, kommt nie zurück.

Instead, Emerson came to accept that when someone dies, things that belong to you disappear, too.

All of us have to make the best of a bad job - which is what life is really all about.