Quotes About Acceptance

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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

Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.

Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble - therefore it does not stay with me. On your side there is so much trouble. On mine there is no trouble at all. Come to my side.

Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive - just be ordinary.

Come what may and love it.

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.

Never put anyone out of your heart.

To hope does not mean to know the future, but rather to be open, in an attitude of spiritual childhood, to accepting it as a gift.

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.

Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.

When you learn to love hell you will be in heaven.

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.

Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.

What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.

Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.

Be content and happy with whatever comes to you.