Quotes about Acceptance

Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?

I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: Thank you.

You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.

But what if the great secret insider-trading truth is that you don't ever get over the biggest losses in your life? Is that good news, bad news, or both? . . . . The pain does grow less acute, but the insidious palace lie that we will get over crushing losses means that our emotional GPS can never find true north, as it is based on maps that no longer mention the most important places we have been to. Pretending that things are nicely boxed up and put away robs us of great riches.

Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.

Everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds.

Everything slows down when we listen and stop trying to fix the unfixable.

One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people.

Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get