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"If we could let ourselves feel just what we feel, instead of reacting against it, condemning it, or trying to manipulate and suppress it, perhaps we would develop greater confidence about facing whatever life confronts us with."

— John Welwood

Awakening the Heart
"Acceptance (along with the related concept of willingness) involves making full contact with internal experiences without attempting to escape, change, or control those events. Acceptance does not imply liking or wanting, nor does it represent giving up, giving in, or resignation. Simply put, acceptance means gently holding whatever arises."

— Jill A. Stoddard, PhD and Niloofar Afari, PhD

The Big Book of ACT Metaphors
"Acceptance involves the action of allowing the presence of all experiences—internal and external, positive and negative—as they are in the moment, without attempting to change the form or frequency of these experiences."

— Jill A. Stoddard, PhD and Niloofar Afari, PhD

The Big Book of ACT Metaphors
"The Serenity Prayer… is a succinct and meaningful way of talking about acceptance and willingness when addressing difficult life circumstances."

— Jill A. Stoddard, PhD and Niloofar Afari, PhD

The Big Book of ACT Metaphors
"Building a true sense of self-trust comes from making contact with the deeper parts of our being, such as the truth of our loving, even when we sometimes act in ways we don’t like."

— Tara Brach

The Self-Acceptance Project
"Self-acceptance is the ability to accept all of our parts and to be open to them, even interested in them."

— Jay Early, PhD

The Self-Acceptance Project
"While traditional spiritual cultures of the East have specialized in illuminating the… “heaven” side of human nature — Western psychology has focused on the earthly half… We need a new vision that embraces all…. domains of human existence…."

— John Welwood

Toward a Psychology of Awakening
"There’s no ideal partner… There’s only the good enough partner who is perfectly imperfect."

— Stan Tatkin

We Do
"Nobody signs up for marriage because they want to be changed by their partner. It doesn’t work. Ever. Go all in or go home. Marriage and commitment can only work if we accept each other wholeheartedly."

— Stan Tatkin

We Do
"When our Inner Child feels consistently unloved by our Inner Adult, the Child’s false beliefs, adopted in childhood when parents were unloving, are reinforced—beliefs that we are bad, wrong, unlovable, unimportant, inadequate, defective in some way."

— Margaret Paul

Inner Bonding

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