Quotes About Acceptance

The false, unhappy self that loves feeling miserable, resentful, or sorry for itself can then no longer survive. This is called surrender. Surrender is not weakness. There is great strength in it.

Cómo podemos abandonar la negatividad, tal como usted sugiere? Soltándola. ¿Cómo suelta un trozo de carbón caliente que tiene en la mano? ¿Cómo suelta un equipaje pesado e inútil que lleva? Reconociendo que usted no quiere sufrir el dolor o soportar la carga más y después dejándola ir.

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind. The mind always seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it.

The present moment is sometimes unacceptable, unpleasant, or awful.

Observa qué ocurre cuando, en lugar de considerar «mala» una experiencia, la aceptas internamente, le das un «sí» interno, dejándola ser como es.

though you may be

Cuando usted honra, reconoce y acepta plenamente su realidad presente — dónde está, quién es, qué está haciendo ahora mismo — cuando acepta plenamente lo que tiene, usted está agradecido de lo que tiene, de lo que es, de Ser. La gratitud por el momento presente y por la plenitud de la vida ahora es la verdadera prosperidad.

If you think you are so enlightened," Ram Dass said, "go and spend a week with your parents.

Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life — to allow life to live through you. The alternatives are pain and suffering, a greatly restricted flow of life energy, and in many cases physical disease.

Abandone la espera como un estado mental. Cuando se sorprenda a sí mismo cayendo en ella...salga inmediatamente.

Naming and labeling are habitual, but that habit can be broken. Start practicing "not naming" with small things. If you miss the plane, drop and break a cup, or slip and fall in the mud, can you refrain from naming the experience as bad or painful? Can you immediately accept the "isness" of that moment? Naming something as bad causes an emotional contraction within you. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is suddenly available to you. The

Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there," or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside. To create and live with such an inner split is insane.

Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

OBSERVA LOS DIVERSOS MODOS EN QUE LA INTRANQUILIDAD, el descontento y la tensión surgen en ti como consecuencia de juicios innecesarios, resistencias a lo que es y la negación del ahora.

This, too, will pass...

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.

Judgment is either to confuse someone's unconscious behavior with who they are or to project your own unconsciousness onto another person and mistake that for who they are. To relinquish judgment does not mean that you do not recognize dysfunction and unconsciousness when you see it. It means "being the knowing" rather than "being the reaction" and the judge.

resist nothing

Seen from a higher perspective, conditions are always positive. To be more precise: they are neither positive nor negative. They are as they are.

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 in 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.

Surrender does not transform what is, at least not directly. Surrender transforms you. When you are transformed, your whole world is transformed, because the world is only a reflection. We spoke about this earlier.

Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity - which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.

Some people may feel, as I did, that they cannot live with themselves anymore. Inner peace then becomes their first priority.

Feel yourself becoming transparent, as it were, without the solidity of a material body. Now allow the noise, or whatever causes a negative reaction, to pass right through you. It is no longer hitting a solid "wall" inside you.