Quotes About Acceptance

How to stop creating time? Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation. Always say "yes" to the present moment. What

Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

Beware of making it your mission to 'eradicate evil,' as you are likely to turn into the very thing you are fighting against. Fighting unconsciousness will draw you into unconsciousness yourself. Unconsciousness, dysfunctional ego behavior, can never be defeated by attacking it.

So give up waiting as a state of mind.

You are only allowed to see a sanitized version of death.

And the ego's greatest enemy of all is, of course, the present moment, which is to say, life itself.

This is my secret,' he said. 'I don't mind what happens.' ... To be in alignment with what is means to be in a relationship of inner nonresistance with what happens.

The most important, the primordial relationship in your life is your relationship with the Now, or rather with whatever form the Now takes, that is to say, what is or what happens.

TO OFFER NO RESISTANCE TO LIFE is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your

Real love doesn't make you suffer.

It is as if there is nobody there to get hurt anymore. That is forgiveness. In

The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all—from the most simple task to the most complex. If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.

Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always

T]he moment that judgment stops through acceptance of what is, you are free of the mind.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life. The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

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.

How to be at peace now? By making peace with the present moment. The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else. Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you.

Forgiveness is to relinquish your grievance and so to let go of grief. It happens naturally once you realize that your grievance serves no purpose except to strengthen a false sense of self. Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life — to allow life to live through you.

That one step is called surrender. I do not mean to say that you will become happy in such a situation. You will not. But fear and pain will become transmuted into inner peace.

When instead of acting against a situation, you merge with it, the solution arises out of the situation itself.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past and not enough presence.

There is nothing wrong with striving to improve your life situation. You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve your life.

If the shutters are closed, the sunlight cannot come in.