Acceptance Quotes - Page 39

• On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

  Tara Brach

  Perfection, Sacred, Path

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• Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Radical, Radical Acceptance

  "Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha". Book by Tara Brach, www.psychologytoday.com. November 23, 2004.

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• Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn't want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

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• Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

  John Powell

  Rejection, Atmosphere, Soil

  John Powell (1990). “Will the Real Me, Please Stand Up?: Twenty-Five Guidelines for Good Communication”, Thomas More Association

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• I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and lifelong, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we’ve made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.

  Caitlin Moran

  Pain, War, Believe

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• The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all – from the most simple task to the most complex.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Simple, Tasks, Needs

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.178, Penguin

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• Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Resistance, Accepting, Including

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.73, New World Library

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• It is trusting that I am loved. That I always have been. That I always will be. I don't have to do anything. I don't have to prove anything, or achieve anything, or accomplish one more thing. That, exactly as I am, I am totally accepted, forgiven, and there is nothing I could ever do to lose this acceptance.

  Rob Bell

  Accepted, Achieve, Accomplish

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.151, Harper Collins

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• Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  People, Done, Alive

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• The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness

  J. Rufus Fears

  Cities, Endure, Testimony

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• The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Errors, Lexicographer, May

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

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• There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity.

  Denis Hayes

  Smell, Sulfur, Prosperity

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• Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Loss, Individual, Social

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• Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy has not disappeared; it has changed form. In the old form, women were forced to obey an overbearing husband in the privacy of an unjust marriage. In the new form, the working single mother is economically abandoned by her former husband and ignored by a patriarchal society at large.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Mother, Husband, Men

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• A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

  Edwin Land

  Science, Preparation, World

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• If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

  Iris Chang

  Political, Ugly, Economic

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• We’ve all heard of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In contrast, I realized, happiness has four stages. To eke out the most happiness from an experience we must: anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Memories, Grief, Drs

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• See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea that you are nameable and describable. You are not. Refuse to think of this or that. There is no other way out of misery, which you have created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation. Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation. Don't be lazy to think.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Believe, Fighting

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• Unlike South Africa, which decided on its own to eliminate its nuclear weapons and welcomed inspection as a means of creating confidence in its disarmament, Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance - not even today - of the disarmament, which was demanded of it and which it needs to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace.

  Hans Blix

  Mean, Winning, Iraq

  UNMOVIC Executive Chairman Hans Blix's report to the United Nations, www.foxnews.com. January 27, 2003.

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• Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the sole physical expression of consciousness. As my body acquired muscle, and in turn strength, there was gradually born within me a tendency towards the positive acceptance of pain, and my interest in physical suffering deepened.

  Yukio Mishima

  Pain, Persistence, Expression

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• Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.

  Vernon Howard

  Block, Simple, Doe

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• In love, there is a total acceptance of self, and a willingness to give of self without an expectation of receiving anything in return. When you love, you are not afraid to share the truth of who you are, and you accept the truth of others without judgment.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Love You, Self, Giving

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 11, 2013

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• Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. [...] The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. They take the ready-made axioms laid down by others, and walk blindly in a rut without trying to see for themselves.

  Childe Hassam

  Art, Eye, People

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• One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pain, Lying, Grief

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 05, 2015

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• If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.

  C. Wright Mills

  Real, Issues, Hell

  "The Marxists". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1962.

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