Quotes — Acceptance

• "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

• "By acceptance I mean a warm regard for him as a person of unconditional self-worth–of value no matter what his condition, his behavior, or his feelings."

  — Carl Rogers

  On Becoming a Person

• "Feelings in themselves don’t necessarily lead to wisdom, but the process of opening fully to them can."

  — John Welwood

  Reflection and Presence: The Dialectic of Awakening

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