Quotes — Acceptance

• "As we integrate and forgive our shadow, life looks different. We see what we have never dared look at before."

  — Richard Rohr

  Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

• "To succeed in the first half of life we usually have to deny our shadow and unacceptable self. The burden of the second half of life is often the reclaiming of what we have denied, feared, and rejected."

  — Richard Rohr

  Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

• "Today, God, help me let go of negative thoughts I may be harboring about my past circumstances or relationships. I can accept, with gratitude, all that has brought me to today."

  — Melody Beattie

  The Language of Letting Go

• "Acceptance… is an expression of lived wisdom."

  — Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mindfulness for Beginners

• "Accepting for the moment does not mean that we accept forever. It means we pause long enough to really see something clearly, as a prelude to really looking into what we see and deepening our understanding. It is not passive resignation."

  — Rhonda V. Magee

  The Inner Work of Racial Justice

• "…if we have the strength and the courage to confront our own emotions and to accept every one of them as a part of us, we cannot only finish our “unfinished business,” but, as we have so often seen, add months and even years to our lives…"

  — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross & David Kessler

  On Grief & Grieving

• "Acceptance is a process that we experience, not a final stage with an end point."

  — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross & David Kessler

  On Grief & Grieving

• "Acceptance is not about liking a situation. It is about acknowledging all that has been lost and learning to live with that loss."

  — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross & David Kessler

  On Grief & Grieving

• "When you fully accept that you don’t know, you give up struggling to find answers with the limited thinking mind, and that is when a greater intelligence can operate through you. And even thought can then benefit from that, since the greater intelligence can flow into it and inspire it."

  — Eckhart Tolle

  Stillness Speaks

• "When we engage with our children with presence as a good-enough parent, they come to know that they are worthy of love, kindness, and the infinite blessings of life."

  — Susan Stiffelman

  Parenting with Presence

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