Acceptance Quotes - 21 quotes

 I wish the Elders of Israel to understand mankind as they are—to go to the people and take them as they are.

- Brigham Young

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 “Teenage years are often years of insecurity, of feeling as though you don’t measure up, of trying to find your place with your peers, and of trying to fit in. You may be tempted to lower your standards and to follow the crowd in order to be accepted by those you desire to have as friends. Please be strong, and be alert to anything that would rob you of the blessings of eternity. The choices you make here and now are forever important.”

- Thomas S. Monson

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 Your Natural Soul Whether or not you know that you are beautiful, the flowers gaze at you whenever you walk by. When your heart feels like stone and you’ve lost sight of the gifts being given, you are still held by the earth beneath you and kissed by the breath of the trees. When you’ve convinced yourself that you’re hopeless and that you simply can’t fulfil the role that you were born here to play, the sky is still whispering your name and the stars are waiting for their chance to sing to you. You are wanted here. You are part of this creation. Let your hurts melt away in the waves Let your cries be carried by the birds. Earth, air, fire and water are the truth of you and when you drop the veil and open to the greater You, you will find your fullness in the valleys and the groves and bow again to the sacred altar of your natural soul.

- Clare Dubois

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 You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

- Dr. Seuss

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 We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

- Frederick Keonig

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 When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice. Only in this moment can we discover that which is timeless. Only here can we find the love that we seek. Love in the past is simply memory, and love in the future is fantasy. Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.

- Jack Kornfield

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 Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go.

- John Welwood

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 Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

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 When people say "Let it go," what they really mean is "Get over it," and that's not a helpful thing to say. It's not a matter of letting go - you would if you could. Instead of "Let it go," we should probably say "Let it be"; this recognizes that the mind won't let go and the problem may not go away, and it allows you to form a healthier relationship with what's bothering you.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

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 The best chance to be whole is to love whatever gets in the way until it ceases to be an obstacle.

- Mark Nepo

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 The human soul doesn’t want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed —to be seen, heard and companioned exactly as it is. When we make that kind of deep bow to the soul of a suffering person, our respect reinforces the soul’s healing resources, the only resources that can help the sufferer make it through.

- Parker Palmer

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 Finding Our Way Back Home With these words I send some light With healing power to your heart I hope it helps to ease some pain Of what is tearing you apart Life sometimes can seem cruel And we are left to wonder why But we are never alone my friend We are all learning, You and I We have in life many lessons For our Spirits need to grow We learn from our pain It's what our Souls need to know So if sometimes you feel helpless And your Heart feels all alone Just remember we are all aboard this journey One day we'll find our way back home.

- Patrick Driscoll

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 If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart.

- Pema Chodron

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 Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry after all these years. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. The point is not to try to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

- Pema Chodron

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 When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety, if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without any pain, from this, I understand that what I want also wants me, and is looking for me and attracting me, there’s a great secret in this for all who can grasp it.

- Rumi

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 One of the stories that most struck me about the power of the recognizing and allowing, the ground level of RAIN, was a man that I met with at a retreat years ago, who was in the early stages of Alzheimer's. He was a psychologist, and he was an experienced meditator. So it's quite interesting to hear him speak about what he was going through. And he described an experience in the early onset, where he was giving a talk that included about meditation to about 100 people. And he was just about to begin, when he went completely blank. He had no idea, not only what he was supposed to say, but where he was, why all these expectant eyes were on him. So here's what he did. Actually, he didn't do anything. He paused, and then he just put his palms together, and he started naming what was coming up in him. So he would say, ""Confused,"" and then he'd just bow. ""Embarrassed,"" bow. ""Afraid,"" bow. ""Heart pounding,"" bow. He took a breath and he'd go, ""Breathing, breathing,"" bow. ""Relaxing."" He started settling. He looked around and he said, ""I'm sorry."" And as you might imagine, there a lot of people with tears in their eyes. One of the men in the group said, ""No one has ever given us the teachings in this way."" And what had he done? Instead of kind of tumbling into what might have been a habitual reactivity to a difficult situation, he paused, which is the beginning of all healing practices-- to stop. And then he began to recognize, just name what was happening. And his way of allowing was that simple bow that Jack has described in a number of examples and can-- it's the energy of a bow. It's respecting the actuality of what's right here, that life is like this right now. This is how it is. So sometimes when we recognize and allow what's going on, when we name it and let it be there, it loses its power. The identification or energy sort of dissolves, and we're and we've arrived back again. We've remembered presence. But often, if Mara has got a lot of juice-- if Mara is revved-- recognizing and allowing begins to wake up a healing attention, but there's still some energy there. And sometimes, when you name what's there and you allow it-- and I often use the word yes. So when you kind of say, ""Yes, this is the life,"" let it be here, it actually gives it permission to get stronger.

- Tara Brach

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 If you pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you pour the salt into a river, people can continue to draw the water to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We can’t accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change. But when our hearts expand, these same things don’t make us suffer anymore. We have a lot of understanding and compassion and can embrace others. We accept others as they are, and then they have a chance to transform.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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 To be aware of your body is the beginning of self-love. When the mind goes home to the body, the mind and body are established in the here and now.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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 Go and love someone exactly as they are and watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves. When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.

- Wes Angelozzi

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 Inner peace is not always a pristine calmness, sometimes it is accepting the tension inside of you without reacting to it, literally feeling it without reinforcing it and then moving gently through your day.

- Yung Pueblo

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 They asked her, ""What does loving yourself mean?"" She answered, ""It means to uncover and release whatever keeps you from true happiness. To love, honor, and accept every single part of you, especially those that are kept in the dark. It means to continually observe yourself with the utmost honesty and without judgment. Loving yourself means striving to reach new heights of self-understanding so as to cultivate the wisdom that inner peace requires.”

- Yung Pueblo

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