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🤲 Acceptance
“The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain”
Accepting pain directly rather than escaping reduces overall suffering.
“The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain.”
— Gabor Mate
“The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain and kindness is the gentle alternative”
“Not why the addiction but why the pain understand the pain and you can begin to heal”
“Healing is possible when we understand that our symptoms are not the problem but signals pointing to it”
“The first step in healing is to accept what is to honor the truth of your experience”
“When we realize that our pain is not our fault but it is our responsibility to heal it everything changes”
“Life is made up of marble and mud.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.”
— Menander
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.”
— Lao Tzu
“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.”
— Zhuangzi
“Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have lived it; I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene.”
— Epictetus
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.”
— Thomas Merton
