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𤲠Acceptance
âAmor fati love your fate which is in fact your lifeâ
â Friedrich Nietzsche
âWhatever the present moment contains accept it as if you had chosen itâ
â Eckhart Tolle
âResentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemiesâ
â Nelson Mandela
âBegin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate lifeâ
â Seneca
âRest in natural great peace this exhausted mind beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thoughtâ
â Patrul Rinpoche
âEveryone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himselfâ
â Leo Tolstoy
âFlow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.â
â Zhuangzi
âTear up the books and you will be free burn the holy text and be at peaceâ
â Bulleh Shah
âTo be beautiful means to be yourself you dont need to be accepted by others you need to accept yourselfâ
â Thich Nhat Hanh
âKnowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishnessâ
â Al-Ghazali
âThe curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can changeâ
â Carl Rogers
âHave you eaten your rice porridge then wash your bowlâ
â Joshu
âFlow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free stay centered by accepting whatever you are doingâ
â Chuang Tzu
âOnly the educated are freeâ
â Epictetus
âCare of the soul requires a special kind of attention that we dont usually give itâ
â Thomas Moore
âGoing to pieces without falling apart is the essence of emotional maturityâ
â Mark Epstein
âOne is not born but rather becomes a womanâ
â Simone de Beauvoir
âDo not regret what you have doneâ
â Miyamoto Musashi
âDo I contradict myself very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudesâ
â Walt Whitman
âAll of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room aloneâ
â Blaise Pascal
âThere is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our willâ
âIn my hut this spring there is nothing there is everythingâ
â Ryokan
âPractice is just opening to whatever comes being willing to have things as they areâ
â Charlotte Joko Beck
âHappiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle some things are within our control and some things are notâ
âFate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.â
âThe sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their lifeâ
â Sadhguru
âThe words you speak become the house you live inâ
â Hafiz
âDarkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that hate cannot drive out hate only love can do thatâ
â Martin Luther King Jr
âThe supreme calling of every human being is to aspire to self-realization all other obligations are secondaryâ
â Anandamayi Ma
âThe most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have anyâ
â Alice Walker
âThe beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves the resolution not to twist them to fit our own imageâ
â Thomas Merton
âNothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.â
â Marcus Aurelius
âMake the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happensâ
âAll is change; all yields its place and goes.â
â Euripides
âHave patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.â
â Francis de Sales
âTell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious lifeâ
â Mary Oliver
âWhoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.â
â Friedrich DÃŧrrenmatt
âI love you without knowing how or when or from whereâ
â Pablo Neruda
âI 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 anywhereâ
â Yunus Emre
âPeople have a hard time letting go of their suffering out of a fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiarâ
âThe quieter you become the more you can hearâ
â Ram Dass
âA person who never made a mistake never tried anything newâ
â Albert Einstein
âTo have faith is to trust yourself to the water when you let go you are given natural buoyancyâ
â Alan Watts
âThe things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand they are moments when we touch one anotherâ
â Jack Kornfield
âTo arrive at a certain point you must start from somewhere elseâ
â Idries Shah
âLean into the sharp points and fully experience them the reward for our courage is that the sharp edges become smoothâ
â Pema Chodron
âZen mind beginners mind in the beginners mind there are many possibilities in the experts there are fewâ
â Suzuki Roshi
âThe serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.â
â Vyasa
âIf 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.â
âThe greatest obstacle to living is expectancy which hangs upon tomorrow and loses todayâ
âFlow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.â
âRealize deeply that the present moment is all you ever haveâ
âPerhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patternsâ
â Tara Brach
âAccept everything just the way it isâ
âIf you use your mind to study reality you wont understand either your mind or realityâ
â Bodhidharma
âEverything we hear is an opinion not a fact everything we see is a perspective not the truthâ
âThe flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.â
â Unknown
âIf you resist change you resist lifeâ
âMindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what is happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what is happeningâ
â Sharon Salzberg
âHaving no destination I am never lostâ
â Ikkyu
âThe fish trap exists because of the fish once you have gotten the fish you can forget the trapâ
âThe universe is change our life is what our thoughts make itâ
âThe task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure but to be able to tolerate insecurityâ
â Erich Fromm
âIn 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 handâ
â Krishnamurti
âThe snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.â
â Lao Tzu
âWhen another person makes you suffer it is because he suffers deeply within himself and his suffering is spilling overâ
âNew beginnings are often disguised as painful endingsâ
âIn the struggle between yourself and the world back the worldâ
â Franz Kafka
âLife can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwardsâ
â Soren Kierkegaard
âLuck is what happens when preparation meets opportunityâ
âIf a problem is fixable if a situation is such that you can do something about it then there is no need to worryâ
â Dalai Lama
âNothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to knowâ
âYou cannot find peace by avoiding lifeâ
â Virginia Woolf
âWe cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.â
â Carl Jung
âI do my thing and you do your thing I am not in this world to live up to your expectationsâ
â Fritz Perls
âGo sweep out the chamber of your heart make it ready to be the dwelling place of the belovedâ
â Attar
âVery little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself in your way of thinkingâ
âThe measure of intelligence is the ability to change.â
âTo be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nestâ
âExperience life in all possible ways good-bad bitter-sweet dark-light summer-winter experience all the dualitiesâ
â Osho
âWherever you go there you areâ
â Jon Kabat-Zinn
âReligion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by rulers as usefulâ
âThe universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.â
âYour own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the worldâ
â Ramana Maharshi
âTrue meditation is not about controlling or changing anything it is about falling in love with what isâ
â Jeff Foster
âI took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart I am I am I amâ
â Sylvia Plath
âTo bear lightly what needs must be is a great virtue.â
âAnd 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 inâ
â Haruki Murakami
âInstead of mercilessly judging and criticizing yourself for various inadequacies or shortcomings self-compassion means you are kind and understanding when confronted with personal failingsâ
â Kristin Neff
âWith self-compassion we give ourselves the same kindness and care we would give to a good friendâ
âLife is long if you know how to use itâ
âYou cant stop the waves but you can learn to surfâ
â Swami Satchidananda
âPerfect is the enemy of goodâ
â Voltaire
âThe soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union.â
â John of the Cross
âEvery wall is a door.â
â Ralph Waldo Emerson
âFreedom is what we do with what is done to usâ
â Jean-Paul Sartre
âThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.â
âTo bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.â
âTrue life is lived when tiny changes occur.â
âThe soul sees by means of afflictionâ
â James Hillman
âI carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victoryâ
â Fernando Pessoa
âHappiness is our natural state it is the way we were before we began to interfere with itâ
â Anthony de Mello
âGod, 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.â
â Reinhold Niebuhr
âIn the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summerâ
â Albert Camus
âWhen I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.â
âIf 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 peaceâ
â Ajahn Chah
âThe flower doesnt dream of the bee it blossoms and the bee comesâ
â Mark Nepo
âHow people treat you is their karma how you react is yoursâ
â Wayne Dyer
âMen are disturbed not by things but by the view which they take of themâ
âNobody can hurt me without my permissionâ
â Mahatma Gandhi
âWhen you argue with reality you lose but only 100 percent of the timeâ
â Byron Katie
âIf you have ever been called defiant incorrigible forward cunning wild troublesome or dangerous you are on the right track do not budgeâ
â Clarissa Pinkola Estes
âWelcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything.â
â AndrÊ Gide
âLife is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.â
â Jack London
âThe mind creates the abyss and the heart crosses itâ
â Nisargadatta Maharaj
âAwareness is the nature of your being it is not something that comes and goesâ
â Rupert Spira
âThe range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to noticeâ
â R.D. Laing
âWhatever you do dont shut off your pain accept your pain and remain vulnerableâ
â Sogyal Rinpoche
âIf you surrender to the wind you can ride itâ
â Toni Morrison
âLife is too short and too precious to be anything but happyâ
â Sylvia Boorstein
âForgiveness is giving up all hope of a better pastâ
âWealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wantsâ
âSimply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go without ever grasping at themâ
â Dilgo Khyentse
âStart by doing what is necessary then do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossibleâ
â Francis of Assisi
âWhen you are content to be simply yourself and dont compare or compete everyone will respect youâ
â Laozi
âLet go or be draggedâ
â Zen Proverb
âNot what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply.â
â James Merrick
âWe must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for usâ
â Joseph Campbell
âPeople neglect the root and seek the branchesâ
â Huang Po
âThe snow goose need not bathe to make itself white neither need you do anything but be yourselfâ
âWhat cannot be cured must be endured.â
â François Rabelais
âLife is a series of natural and spontaneous changes do not resist them that only creates sorrowâ
âTrue happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the futureâ
âAll that you touch you change all that you change changes youâ
â Octavia Butler
âIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting itâ
â Aristotle
âThe art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.â
â Bernard Baruch
âThe peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of griefâ
â Wendell Berry
âThe opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformityâ
â Rollo May
âThe deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can containâ
â Khalil Gibran
âThe sage does not contend, and therefore no one can contend with him.â
âIt is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eyeâ
â Antoine de Saint-Exupery
âIf you meet the Buddha on the road kill himâ
â Linji
âResign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety.â
â François FÊnelon
âYou have to grow from the inside out none can teach you none can make you spiritual there is no other teacher but your own soulâ
â Vivekananda
âLet me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing themâ
â Rabindranath Tagore
âWhere attention goes neural firing flows and neural connection growsâ
â Daniel Siegel
âMy religion is to live and die without regretâ
â Milarepa
âCome come whoever you are wanderer worshipper lover of leaving come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times come yet again comeâ
â Mevlana
âReal knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignoranceâ
â Confucius
âDo not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pondâ
â Ramakrishna
âLife always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every momentâ
âThe essence of practice is simply letting whatever happens happen whatever goes goâ
â Mingyur Rinpoche
âThe object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insaneâ
âTo resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.â
âRenunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.â
â Shunryu Suzuki
âHe who has a why to live can bear almost any how.â
âWherever you are that is the entry pointâ
â Kabir
âI dwell in possibilityâ
â Emily Dickinson
âLife is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.â
âNo man is free who is not master of himselfâ
âWe are all just walking each other homeâ
âThe inferno of the living is not something that will be if there is one it is what is already hereâ
â Italo Calvino
âIf you judge people you have no time to love themâ
â Mother Teresa
âThe act of self-understanding is therapeuticâ
â Irvin Yalom
âLet the mind be empty let the heart be open let there be no seekingâ
â Papaji
âFreedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problemâ
âFeelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky conscious breathing is my anchorâ
âHappiness is a skill it requires effort and timeâ
â Matthieu Ricard
âI am a lover of what is not because I am a spiritual person but because it hurts when I argue with realityâ
âTo be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.â
âWhen you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive to breathe to think to enjoy to loveâ
âWhoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken.â
âHe who is contented is rich.â
âThe course of true love never did run smoothâ
â William Shakespeare
âIn any given moment we have two options to step forward into growth or to step back into safetyâ
â Abraham Maslow
âWhat you resist not only persists but will grow in sizeâ
âYou are the universe experiencing itselfâ
âThe 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.â
â Deng Ming-Dao
âLife is the dancer and you are the danceâ
âThe ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligenceâ
â Jiddu Krishnamurti
âEnlightenment is a destructive process it has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier it is the crumbling away of untruthâ
â Adyashanti
âThe 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 fulfillmentâ
â Milan Kundera
âNot knowing how near the truth is we seek it far awayâ
â Hakuin
âWhy do you stay in prison when the door is so wide openâ
â Rumi
âSorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.â
âYou yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affectionâ
âWe need four hugs a day for survival eight for maintenance twelve for growthâ
â Virginia Satir
âThe attempt to escape from pain is what creates more painâ
â Gabor Mate
âCompassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded its a relationship between equalsâ
âNothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.â
âYou are not a person you are the awareness in which the person appearsâ
â Mooji
âThe wound is the place where the light enters youâ
âThe bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.â
â John Berry
âThe conversational nature of reality means we cannot simply will everything we want into beingâ
â David Whyte
âGod, 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.â
âEverything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselvesâ
âThe very act of paying attention to our experience as it is transforms itâ
â B. Alan Wallace
âDo 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.â
âThe world is full of suffering. It is also full of the overcoming of it.â
â Helen Keller
âAlthough the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of itâ
âThe art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.â
â William James
âThe 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.â
â Kahlil Gibran
âWe suffer more often in imagination than in realityâ
âBegin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.â
âThe soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughtsâ
âMindfulness is about being fully present and accepting the moment as it isâ
â Gil Fronsdal
âSince we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.â
â Spanish Proverb
âFor after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.â
â Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
âIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that will be enoughâ
â Meister Eckhart
âThe idea of Zen is to catch life as it flowsâ
â D.T. Suzuki
âWhat is to give light must endure burning.â
â Viktor Frankl
âTeach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see; that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.â
â Alexander Pope
âThe door to your heart opens inwardâ
â Ajahn Brahm
âIn the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.â
âDo not attach yourself to any particular creed exclusively so that you disbelieve in all the restâ
â Ibn Arabi
âThe root of all suffering is the failure to accept what isâ
â Tsongkhapa
âRight now its like thisâ
â Ajahn Sumedho
âIt is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old they grow old because they stop pursuing dreamsâ
â Gabriel Garcia Marquez
âNature is not only all that is visible to the eye â it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.â
â Edvard Munch
âLetting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happinessâ
âNothing others do is because of you what others say and do is a projection of their own realityâ
â Don Miguel Ruiz
âWhat disturbs men's minds is not events but their judgments on events.â
âLet everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is finalâ
â Rainer Maria Rilke
âWhat we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.â
â Plutarch
âWhen you do something you should burn yourself completely like a good bonfire leaving no trace of yourselfâ
âThis 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 playâ
âSome of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting goâ
â Herman Hesse
âThe 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 gentlyâ
âHe is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.â
âThe wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.â
âPain is inevitable suffering is optionalâ
âIf the problem can be solved why worry if the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no goodâ
â Shantideva
âThe word yes is the door to graceâ
â David Richo
âThe 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 depthsâ
â Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
âGod grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the differenceâ
âNo man is free who is not master of himself.â
âAs is a tale so is life not how long it is but how good it is is what mattersâ
âIn the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved how well we have learned to let goâ
âThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the danceâ
âChoose to be optimistic it feels betterâ
âDont hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise simply realize that our original mind right from the start is beyond thoughtâ
â Bankei
âStop looking outside for help you are the source and the solutionâ
â Gangaji
âThe bad news is you are falling through the air nothing to hang on to no parachute the good news is there is no groundâ
â Chogyam Trungpa
âTo study the self is to forget the self to forget the self is to be enlightened by all thingsâ
â Dogen
âIncredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you dontâ
â Steve Maraboli
âYou know quite well deep within you that there is only a single magic a single power a single salvation and that is called lovingâ
â Hermann Hesse
âWaste no more time arguing about what a good man should be be oneâ
âWe are always falling in love or quarreling rejecting something or clinging to itâ
âClearly recognizing what is happening inside us and regarding what we see with an open kind and loving heart is what I call radical acceptanceâ
âHe who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.â
â Socrates
âThe only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes nextâ
â Ursula K. Le Guin
âThese pains you feel are messengers listen to themâ
âAwareness is like the sky thoughts and feelings come and go like cloudsâ
â Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
âThe contentment that comes from within is the only real wealth.â
â Thiruvalluvar
âI 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 hellâ
â Rabia al-Adawiyya
âWhen 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 tooâ
â Paulo Coelho
âTo be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember itâ
âLet go of what has passed let go of what may come let go of what is happening nowâ
â Tilopa
âI 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 lovedâ
â Jorge Luis Borges
âEverything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human freedoms to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstancesâ
âNot everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is facedâ
â James Baldwin
âOut beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field I will meet you thereâ
âContentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.â
âSometimes even to live is an act of courageâ
âThe mind must always be in the state of flowing for when it stops anywhere that means the flow is interruptedâ
â Takuan Soho
âWhat we know matters but who we are matters moreâ
â Brene Brown
âFor every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happinessâ
âStep into the fire of self-discovery this fire will not burn you it will only burn what you are notâ
âThe Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferencesâ
â Sengcan
âTo be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.â
âHave patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.â
âThe 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.â
âDo not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise seek what they soughtâ
â Basho
âDo not try to become anything let the beauty of everything just be itâ
âWhen we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselvesâ
âTaking a new step uttering a new word is what people fear mostâ
â Fyodor Dostoevsky
âIn the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of youâ
â Deepak Chopra
âThe boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedomâ
âFirst learn the meaning of what you say and then speakâ
âIn the midst of chaos there is also opportunityâ
â Sun Tzu
âLook back over the past with its changing empires that rose and fell and you can foresee the future tooâ
âThe measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.â
âIf you dont like something change it if you cant change it change your attitudeâ
â Maya Angelou
âIf you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupidâ
âBe still and know that you are already freeâ
âIn the beginners mind there are many possibilities but in the experts mind there are fewâ
âThe whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubtsâ
â Bertrand Russell
âYour pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understandingâ
âPatience is the companion of wisdom.â
â Augustine of Hippo
âHealing depends on listening with the inner ear stopping the incessant blather and listeningâ
â Marion Woodman
âTrue contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.â
â G.K. Chesterton
âTo accept the shadow is to accept the whole selfâ
â Robert Johnson
âBe a lotus flower be in the water and do not let the water touch youâ
âIn the rush to accomplish we often forget to take time to simply rest and be grateful for what we haveâ
â Wayne Muller
âAccept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you togetherâ
âA thought is harmless unless we believe itâ
âVulnerability is not winning or losing its having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcomeâ
âMeditation is not about feeling a certain way its about feeling the way you feelâ
â Bhante Gunaratana
âThe real dirt is not outside but inside in our hearts we can wash all stains with water but the heart must be washed with tearsâ
â Shams Tabrizi
âHow much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of itâ
âRadical acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it isâ
âOne must not tie a ship to a single anchor, nor life to a single hope.â
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