Quotes About Acceptance

Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

Would you rather be right or free?

This, too, will pass.

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

Real happiness in life comes from the mental capacity to adapt to any situation.

To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.

I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed, or "fixed."

Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy.

A spiritual Christian should welcome any burden which the Lord brings his way.

Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.

As we learn to see each other through our spiritual eyes, the physical differences will cease to matter.

Whether it is suffering or joy, going through experiences in life is not so much of a karma. Depriving yourself of any experience is the big karma.

Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and the easiest when it is done.

The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much

To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.

The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.

When we align our lives with spiritual laws, challenges remain, but we can approach them with arms open wide, ready to dance.

I'm more of a realist when it comes to life, and I'd much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.

Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage.