🤲 Acceptance

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat known suffering known struggle known loss and have found their way out of the depths”

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#acceptance #suffering #beauty

“Let the mind be empty let the heart be open let there be no seeking”

— Papaji

#acceptance #emptiness #openness

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#acceptance #serenity #courage

“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”

— Bernard Baruch

#acceptance #growth #resilience

“I am not sure that I exist actually I am all the writers that I have read all the people that I have met all the women that I have loved”

— Jorge Luis Borges

#acceptance #identity #multiplicity

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will”

— Epictetus

#acceptance #happiness #will

“The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand they are moments when we touch one another”

— Jack Kornfield

#acceptance #moments #connection

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

— Seneca

#acceptance #present moment #stoicism

“The contentment that comes from within is the only real wealth.”

— Thiruvalluvar

#acceptance #contentment #inner peace

“In the rush to accomplish we often forget to take time to simply rest and be grateful for what we have”

— Wayne Muller

#acceptance #rest #gratitude

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#acceptance #uncertainty #possibility

“Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them the reward for our courage is that the sharp edges become smooth”

— Pema Chodron

#acceptance #sharp edges #courage

“In any given moment we have two options to step forward into growth or to step back into safety”

— Abraham Maslow

#acceptance #growth #choice

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance”

— Confucius

#acceptance #ignorance #knowledge

“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn then the door is there and the key is in your hand”

— Krishnamurti

#acceptance #self-knowledge #key

“Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it”

— Helen Keller

#acceptance #suffering #overcoming

“Perfect is the enemy of good”

— Voltaire

#acceptance #perfection #good

“If you let go a little you will have a little peace if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace if you let go completely you will have complete peace”

— Ajahn Chah

#acceptance #letting go #peace

“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself”

— Leo Tolstoy

#acceptance #self-change #world

“When another person makes you suffer it is because he suffers deeply within himself and his suffering is spilling over”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#acceptance #suffering #understanding

“The bad news is you are falling through the air nothing to hang on to no parachute the good news is there is no ground”

— Chogyam Trungpa

#acceptance #groundlessness #freedom

“Do I contradict myself very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes”

— Walt Whitman

#acceptance #contradiction #multitude

“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice”

— R.D. Laing

#acceptance #awareness #limits

“Whatever the present moment contains accept it as if you had chosen it”

— Eckhart Tolle

#acceptance #present #choice

“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”

— Confucius

#acceptance #forgiveness #letting go

“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings”

— Lao Tzu

#acceptance #endings #beginnings

“Stop looking outside for help you are the source and the solution”

— Gangaji

#acceptance #self-reliance #source

“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything.”

— André Gide

#acceptance #detachment #presence

“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns”

— Tara Brach

#acceptance #freedom #patterns

“You know quite well deep within you that there is only a single magic a single power a single salvation and that is called loving”

— Hermann Hesse

#acceptance #love #salvation

“The mind must always be in the state of flowing for when it stops anywhere that means the flow is interrupted”

— Takuan Soho

#acceptance #flow #mind

“Happiness is a skill it requires effort and time”

— Matthieu Ricard

#acceptance #happiness #skill

“Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply.”

— James Merrick

#acceptance #grace #humility

“To study the self is to forget the self to forget the self is to be enlightened by all things”

— Dogen

#acceptance #self-forgetting #enlightenment

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”

— Unknown

#acceptance #inner strength #hope

“When you are content to be simply yourself and dont compare or compete everyone will respect you”

— Laozi

#acceptance #contentment #self

“The flower doesnt dream of the bee it blossoms and the bee comes”

— Mark Nepo

#acceptance #blossoming #natural

“If you surrender to the wind you can ride it”

— Toni Morrison

#acceptance #surrender #wind

“I love you without knowing how or when or from where”

— Pablo Neruda

#acceptance #love #mystery

“True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future”

— Seneca

#acceptance #present #future

“In the midst of chaos there is also opportunity”

— Sun Tzu

#acceptance #chaos #opportunity

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain”

— Khalil Gibran

#acceptance #sorrow #joy

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart I am I am I am”

— Sylvia Plath

#acceptance #heartbeat #existence

“In my hut this spring there is nothing there is everything”

— Ryokan

#acceptance #nothing #everything

“To be beautiful means to be yourself you dont need to be accepted by others you need to accept yourself”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#acceptance #self #beauty

“The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.”

— Kahlil Gibran

#acceptance #understanding #empathy

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it”

— Marcus Aurelius

#acceptance #anger #consequences

“Having no destination I am never lost”

— Ikkyu

#acceptance #destination #freedom

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

— Lao Tzu

#acceptance #letting go #potential

“To accept the shadow is to accept the whole self”

— Robert Johnson

#acceptance #shadow #wholeness

“When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves”

— Viktor Frankl

#acceptance #change #self

“The quieter you become the more you can hear”

— Ram Dass

#acceptance #quiet #listening

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.”

— Rumi

#acceptance #sorrow #joy

“Instead of mercilessly judging and criticizing yourself for various inadequacies or shortcomings self-compassion means you are kind and understanding when confronted with personal failings”

— Kristin Neff

#acceptance #self-compassion #kindness

“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences.”

— Deng Ming-Dao

#acceptance #peace #nature

“I carry a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other with these things I am going to set fire to heaven and put out the flames of hell”

— Rabia al-Adawiyya

#acceptance #beyond reward #pure love

“And once the storm is over you wont remember how you made it through you wont even be sure the storm is really over but one thing is certain when you come out of the storm you wont be the same person who walked in”

— Haruki Murakami

#acceptance #storms #transformation

“Be still and know that you are already free”

— Gangaji

#acceptance #stillness #freedom

“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#acceptance #resilience #stoicism

“Let everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is final”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#acceptance #feelings #impermanence

“The conversational nature of reality means we cannot simply will everything we want into being”

— David Whyte

#acceptance #reality #conversation

“I do my thing and you do your thing I am not in this world to live up to your expectations”

— Fritz Perls

#acceptance #independence #expectations

“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem”

— Krishnamurti

#acceptance #questions #freedom

“What cannot be cured must be endured.”

— François Rabelais

#acceptance #endurance #pragmatism

“Going to pieces without falling apart is the essence of emotional maturity”

— Mark Epstein

#acceptance #pieces #maturity

“Be a lotus flower be in the water and do not let the water touch you”

— Osho

#acceptance #lotus #non-attachment

“The sage does not contend, and therefore no one can contend with him.”

— Lao Tzu

#acceptance #peace #non-resistance

“Amor fati love your fate which is in fact your life”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#acceptance #fate #love

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them”

— Rabindranath Tagore

#acceptance #danger #fearlessness

“I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory”

— Fernando Pessoa

#acceptance #defeat #victory

“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”

— Leo Tolstoy

#acceptance #change #growth

“As is a tale so is life not how long it is but how good it is is what matters”

— Seneca

#acceptance #quality #life

“With self-compassion we give ourselves the same kindness and care we would give to a good friend”

— Kristin Neff

#acceptance #self-compassion #friendship

“Let go or be dragged”

— Zen Proverb

#acceptance #letting go #wisdom

“The world is full of suffering. It is also full of the overcoming of it.”

— Helen Keller

#acceptance #suffering #hope

“The door to your heart opens inward”

— Ajahn Brahm

#acceptance #heart #inward

“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”

— Lao Tzu

#acceptance #self-acceptance #taoism

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise seek what they sought”

— Basho

#acceptance #wisdom #seeking

“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#acceptance #patience #nature

“To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.”

— Alan Watts

#acceptance #change #letting go

“Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.”

— Spanish Proverb

#acceptance #contentment #practicality

“Radical acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it is”

— Tara Brach

#acceptance #radical #experience

“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure but to be able to tolerate insecurity”

— Erich Fromm

#acceptance #insecurity #tolerance

“The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.”

— Vyasa

#acceptance #serenity #discipline

“What is to give light must endure burning.”

— Viktor Frankl

#acceptance #suffering #purpose

“Awareness is the nature of your being it is not something that comes and goes”

— Rupert Spira

#acceptance #awareness #permanence

“Men are disturbed not by things but by the view which they take of them”

— Epictetus

#acceptance #views #disturbance

“If you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupid”

— Epictetus

#acceptance #improvement #foolishness

“Whatever you do dont shut off your pain accept your pain and remain vulnerable”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#acceptance #pain #vulnerability

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants”

— Epictetus

#acceptance #wealth #wants

“The act of self-understanding is therapeutic”

— Irvin Yalom

#acceptance #self-understanding #therapy

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that will be enough”

— Meister Eckhart

#acceptance #gratitude #prayer

“To bear lightly what needs must be is a great virtue.”

— Seneca

#acceptance #stoicism #resilience

“We are all just walking each other home”

— Ram Dass

#acceptance #togetherness #home

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human freedoms to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances”

— Viktor Frankl

#acceptance #attitude #freedom

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#acceptance #permission #boundaries

“The fish trap exists because of the fish once you have gotten the fish you can forget the trap”

— Zhuangzi

#acceptance #tools #essence

“The words you speak become the house you live in”

— Hafiz

#acceptance #words #home

“This is the real secret of life to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now and instead of calling it work realize it is play”

— Alan Watts

#acceptance #play #engagement

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”

— Herman Hesse

#acceptance #letting go #strength

“When you argue with reality you lose but only 100 percent of the time”

— Byron Katie

#acceptance #reality #arguing

“The root of all suffering is the failure to accept what is”

— Tsongkhapa

#acceptance #suffering #root

“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.”

— Zhuangzi

#acceptance #flow #freedom

“Have you eaten your rice porridge then wash your bowl”

— Joshu

#acceptance #ordinary #mindfulness

“No man is free who is not master of himself”

— Epictetus

#acceptance #self-mastery #freedom

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane”

— Marcus Aurelius

#acceptance #individuality #sanity

“Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken.”

— Lao Tzu

#acceptance #flexibility #wisdom

“Everything we hear is an opinion not a fact everything we see is a perspective not the truth”

— Marcus Aurelius

#acceptance #opinion #perspective

“Happiness is our natural state it is the way we were before we began to interfere with it”

— Anthony de Mello

#acceptance #happiness #natural

“Taking a new step uttering a new word is what people fear most”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#acceptance #fear #newness

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#acceptance #observation #intelligence

“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white neither need you do anything but be yourself”

— Lao Tzu

#acceptance #self #naturalness

“The mind creates the abyss and the heart crosses it”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

#acceptance #heart #mind

“True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.”

— G.K. Chesterton

#acceptance #contentment #gratitude

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#acceptance #serenity #wisdom

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies”

— Nelson Mandela

#acceptance #resentment #poison

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#acceptance #perspective #inner peace

“To arrive at a certain point you must start from somewhere else”

— Idries Shah

#acceptance #journey #origin

“To be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest”

— Pema Chodron

#acceptance #aliveness #disruption

“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today”

— Seneca

#acceptance #expectancy #today

“Wherever you are that is the entry point”

— Kabir

#acceptance #here #entry

“Care of the soul requires a special kind of attention that we dont usually give it”

— Thomas Moore

#acceptance #soul care #attention

“A thought is harmless unless we believe it”

— Byron Katie

#acceptance #thoughts #belief

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes do not resist them that only creates sorrow”

— Lao Tzu

#acceptance #change #flow

“You cant stop the waves but you can learn to surf”

— Swami Satchidananda

#acceptance #waves #adaptation

“My religion is to live and die without regret”

— Milarepa

#acceptance #regret-free #living

“The wound is the place where the light enters you”

— Rumi

#acceptance #wounds #light

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded its a relationship between equals”

— Pema Chodron

#acceptance #compassion #equality

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

— Unknown

#acceptance #change #flow

“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.”

— Deng Ming-Dao

#acceptance #nature #gentleness

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance”

— Eckhart Tolle

#acceptance #life #dance

“Vulnerability is not winning or losing its having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome”

— Brene Brown

#acceptance #vulnerability #courage

“Let go of what has passed let go of what may come let go of what is happening now”

— Tilopa

#acceptance #past present future #release

“If you use your mind to study reality you wont understand either your mind or reality”

— Bodhidharma

#acceptance #mind #reality

“Right now its like this”

— Ajahn Sumedho

#acceptance #present #simplicity

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be be one”

— Marcus Aurelius

#acceptance #action #goodness

“Practice is just opening to whatever comes being willing to have things as they are”

— Charlotte Joko Beck

#acceptance #practice #openness

“I am a lover of what is not because I am a spiritual person but because it hurts when I argue with reality”

— Byron Katie

#acceptance #reality #pain

“Awareness is like the sky thoughts and feelings come and go like clouds”

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

#acceptance #awareness #sky

“Where attention goes neural firing flows and neural connection grows”

— Daniel Siegel

#acceptance #attention #neural

“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing”

— Chuang Tzu

#acceptance #flow #centering

“In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer”

— Albert Camus

#acceptance #inner strength #seasons

“Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.”

— Francis de Sales

#acceptance #patience #self-compassion

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.”

— Francis de Sales

#acceptance #patience #self-compassion

“Rest in natural great peace this exhausted mind beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought”

— Patrul Rinpoche

#acceptance #rest #peace

“He who is contented is rich.”

— Unknown

#acceptance #contentment #simplicity

“Enlightenment is a destructive process it has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier it is the crumbling away of untruth”

— Adyashanti

#acceptance #enlightenment #truth

“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom”

— Tara Brach

#acceptance #boundary #freedom

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts”

— Marcus Aurelius

#acceptance #soul #thoughts

“The real dirt is not outside but inside in our hearts we can wash all stains with water but the heart must be washed with tears”

— Shams Tabrizi

#acceptance #inner cleansing #tears

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#acceptance #aging #dreams

“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it”

— Confucius

#acceptance #wrongs #forgetting

“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#acceptance #serenity #courage

“You have to grow from the inside out none can teach you none can make you spiritual there is no other teacher but your own soul”

— Vivekananda

#acceptance #inner growth #soul teacher

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image”

— Thomas Merton

#acceptance #love #freedom

“In the beginners mind there are many possibilities but in the experts mind there are few”

— Shunryu Suzuki

#acceptance #beginners mind #openness

“Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what is happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what is happening”

— Sharon Salzberg

#acceptance #stories #reality

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#acceptance #purpose #endurance

“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.”

— Socrates

#acceptance #contentment #simplicity

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering out of a fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiar”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#acceptance #familiar suffering #unknown

“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”

— John Berry

#acceptance #letting go #openness

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

— Augustine of Hippo

#acceptance #patience #wisdom

“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced”

— James Baldwin

#acceptance #facing #change

“The course of true love never did run smooth”

— William Shakespeare

#acceptance #love #imperfection

“When you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive to breathe to think to enjoy to love”

— Marcus Aurelius

#acceptance #morning #gratitude

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”

— Socrates

#acceptance #contentment #desire

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#acceptance #anger #happiness

“Zen mind beginners mind in the beginners mind there are many possibilities in the experts there are few”

— Suzuki Roshi

#acceptance #beginners mind #zen

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#acceptance #freedom #response

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life”

— Virginia Woolf

#acceptance #peace #engagement

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance”

— Alan Watts

#acceptance #change #dance

“The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union.”

— John of the Cross

#acceptance #detachment #spiritual freedom

“Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment”

— Charlotte Joko Beck

#acceptance #teachers #life

“Experience life in all possible ways good-bad bitter-sweet dark-light summer-winter experience all the dualities”

— Osho

#acceptance #duality #experience

“You cant stop the waves but you can learn to surf”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#acceptance #waves #surfing

“Dont hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise simply realize that our original mind right from the start is beyond thought”

— Bankei

#acceptance #thoughts #original mind

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that”

— Martin Luther King Jr

#acceptance #light #love

“If you meet the Buddha on the road kill him”

— Linji

#acceptance #attachment #freedom

“Pain is inevitable suffering is optional”

— Haruki Murakami

#acceptance #pain #choice

“To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.”

— Seneca

#acceptance #calm #adversity

“If you have ever been called defiant incorrigible forward cunning wild troublesome or dangerous you are on the right track do not budge”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#acceptance #wildness #defiance

“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life”

— Seneca

#acceptance #daily #living

“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”

— Jack London

#acceptance #resilience #life

“You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection”

— Sharon Salzberg

#acceptance #self-love #deserving

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us”

— Joseph Campbell

#acceptance #letting go #destiny

“People neglect the root and seek the branches”

— Huang Po

#acceptance #root #essence

“In the struggle between yourself and the world back the world”

— Franz Kafka

#acceptance #world #surrender

“Mindfulness is about being fully present and accepting the moment as it is”

— Gil Fronsdal

#acceptance #mindfulness #presence

“I dwell in possibility”

— Emily Dickinson

#acceptance #possibility #dwelling

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#acceptance #heart #essential

“If you dont like something change it if you cant change it change your attitude”

— Maya Angelou

#acceptance #attitude #change

“When we love we always strive to become better than we are when we strive to become better than we are everything around us becomes better too”

— Paulo Coelho

#acceptance #love #improvement

“I searched for God among the Christians and on the cross and therein I found him not I went into the ancient temples of idolatry no trace of him anywhere”

— Yunus Emre

#acceptance #seeking #everywhere

“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.”

— Unknown

#acceptance #adaptability #wisdom

“Simply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go without ever grasping at them”

— Dilgo Khyentse

#acceptance #non-grasping #freedom

“Healing depends on listening with the inner ear stopping the incessant blather and listening”

— Marion Woodman

#acceptance #listening #healing

“If you judge people you have no time to love them”

— Mother Teresa

#acceptance #judgment #love

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”

— Unknown

#acceptance #adversity #resilience

“The essence of practice is simply letting whatever happens happen whatever goes go”

— Mingyur Rinpoche

#acceptance #letting #essence

“Do not try to become anything let the beauty of everything just be it”

— Adyashanti

#acceptance #beauty #being

“The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.”

— Plutarch

#acceptance #character #adversity

“The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences”

— Sengcan

#acceptance #preferences #ease

“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”

— Carl Jung

#acceptance #change #psychology

“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently”

— Pema Chodron

#acceptance #honesty #gentleness

“Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond”

— Ramakrishna

#acceptance #urgency #illumination

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new”

— Albert Einstein

#acceptance #mistakes #learning

“The very act of paying attention to our experience as it is transforms it”

— B. Alan Wallace

#acceptance #attention #transformation

“We are always falling in love or quarreling rejecting something or clinging to it”

— Charlotte Joko Beck

#acceptance #patterns #awareness

“Come come whoever you are wanderer worshipper lover of leaving come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times come yet again come”

— Mevlana

#acceptance #welcome #unconditional

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”

— Seneca

#acceptance #suffering #imagination

“True meditation is not about controlling or changing anything it is about falling in love with what is”

— Jeff Foster

#acceptance #meditation #love

“If the problem can be solved why worry if the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good”

— Shantideva

#acceptance #worry #solutions

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage”

— Seneca

#acceptance #living #courage

“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief”

— Wendell Berry

#acceptance #peace #wild

“The word yes is the door to grace”

— David Richo

#acceptance #yes #grace

“Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.”

— Shunryu Suzuki

#acceptance #impermanence #buddhism

“One is not born but rather becomes a woman”

— Simone de Beauvoir

#acceptance #becoming #identity

“Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

#acceptance #justice #change

“How people treat you is their karma how you react is yours”

— Wayne Dyer

#acceptance #karma #reaction

“Tear up the books and you will be free burn the holy text and be at peace”

— Bulleh Shah

#acceptance #freedom #non-attachment

“The heaviest of burdens crushes us we sink beneath it it pins us to the ground but the heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of lifes most intense fulfillment”

— Milan Kundera

#acceptance #burden #fulfillment

“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life”

— Sadhguru

#acceptance #uncertainty #intelligence

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”

— Epictetus

#acceptance #self-mastery #freedom

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.”

— Laozi

#acceptance #change #flow

“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness”

— Al-Ghazali

#acceptance #knowledge #action

“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformity”

— Rollo May

#acceptance #courage #non-conformity

“Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.”

— Epictetus

#acceptance #stoicism #peace

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

— Epictetus

#acceptance #gratitude #wisdom

“All that you touch you change all that you change changes you”

— Octavia Butler

#acceptance #change #mutual

“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye — it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”

— Edvard Munch

#acceptance #soul #inner life

“What you resist not only persists but will grow in size”

— Carl Jung

#acceptance #resistance #growth

“Nothing others do is because of you what others say and do is a projection of their own reality”

— Don Miguel Ruiz

#acceptance #others #projection

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”

— Aristotle

#acceptance #thought #education

“We need four hugs a day for survival eight for maintenance twelve for growth”

— Virginia Satir

#acceptance #connection #touch

“Every wall is a door.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#acceptance #perspective #opportunity

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

— William James

#acceptance #wisdom #letting go

“In the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved how well we have learned to let go”

— Jack Kornfield

#acceptance #letting go #love

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky conscious breathing is my anchor”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#acceptance #feelings #breathing

“What we know matters but who we are matters more”

— Brene Brown

#acceptance #being #identity

“One must not tie a ship to a single anchor, nor life to a single hope.”

— Epictetus

#acceptance #resilience #flexibility

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”

— Plutarch

#acceptance #inner peace #transformation

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by rulers as useful”

— Seneca

#acceptance #religion #perspective

“Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle some things are within our control and some things are not”

— Epictetus

#acceptance #control #happiness

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field I will meet you there”

— Rumi

#acceptance #beyond judgment #field

“Step into the fire of self-discovery this fire will not burn you it will only burn what you are not”

— Mooji

#acceptance #self-discovery #fire

“Look back over the past with its changing empires that rose and fell and you can foresee the future too”

— Marcus Aurelius

#acceptance #history #cycles

“All is change; all yields its place and goes.”

— Euripides

#acceptance #change #impermanence

“If a problem is fixable if a situation is such that you can do something about it then there is no need to worry”

— Dalai Lama

#acceptance #worry #solutions

“Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us and regarding what we see with an open kind and loving heart is what I call radical acceptance”

— Tara Brach

#acceptance #recognition #kindness

“Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see; that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”

— Alexander Pope

#acceptance #compassion #mercy

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know”

— Pema Chodron

#acceptance #lessons #patience

“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life”

— Mary Oliver

#acceptance #life #preciousness

“First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak”

— Epictetus

#acceptance #speech #meaning

“You are not a person you are the awareness in which the person appears”

— Mooji

#acceptance #awareness #identity

“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens”

— Epictetus

#acceptance #power #surrender

“The supreme calling of every human being is to aspire to self-realization all other obligations are secondary”

— Anandamayi Ma

#acceptance #self-realization #calling

“The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it”

— Marcus Aurelius

#acceptance #universe #thoughts

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”

— Seneca

#acceptance #luck #preparation

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves”

— Carl Jung

#acceptance #irritation #self-understanding

“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards”

— Soren Kierkegaard

#acceptance #understanding #forward

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any”

— Alice Walker

#acceptance #power #thinking

“Not knowing how near the truth is we seek it far away”

— Hakuin

#acceptance #truth #nearness

“All of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone”

— Blaise Pascal

#acceptance #solitude #stillness

“The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain”

— Gabor Mate

#acceptance #escape #pain

“Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#acceptance #letting go #freedom

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts”

— Bertrand Russell

#acceptance #doubt #wisdom

“Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself in your way of thinking”

— Marcus Aurelius

#acceptance #thinking #simplicity

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