Quotes About Acceptance

When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.

whatever you fight, you strengthyen. What you resist, persists. A New Earth:War is a mind set

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.

Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.

Everything is honored, but nothing matters.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond...If you fight it, you're stuck with it.

Become at ease with the state of "not knowing.

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences. No excuses. No negativity. No psychic pollution. Keep you inner space clear.

Always say "yes" to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is? What could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say "yes" to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

Let go of excessive thinking and see how everything changes. Your relationships change because you don't demand that the other person should do something for you to enhance your sense of self. You don't compare yourself to others or try to be more than someone else to strengthen your sense of identity.

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

Don't seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions.

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness.

People believe themselves to be dependent on what happens for their happiness. They don't realize that what happens is the most unstable thing in the universe.

As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

I don't know is not confusion. Confusion is I don't know, but I should know or I don't know, but I need to know. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

When you accept what is, every moment is the best moment. That is enlightenment.

Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.

So next time somebody says, "Sorry to have kept you waiting," you can reply, "That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing here enjoying myself — in joy in my self.