🤲 Acceptance

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

“One is not born but rather becomes a woman”

“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”

“The act of self-understanding is therapeutic”

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

“Choose to be optimistic it feels better”

“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”

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

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

“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”

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

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

“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”

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

“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings”

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

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

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

“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”

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

“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”

“Pain is inevitable suffering is optional”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“The course of true love never did run smooth”

“Every wall is a door.”

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

“When you do something you should burn yourself completely like a good bonfire leaving no trace of yourself”

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

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

“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”

“Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.”

“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”

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

“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”

“A thought is harmless unless we believe it”

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

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

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

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

“Life is too short and too precious to be anything but happy”

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

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

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

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

“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.”