#accept

Ascension to successive echelons in the pyramid of awareness is an act of inclusion requiring unconditional acceptance of all that lies below. ↗

— Gerald R. Stanek

#ancient-wisdom #awareness #esoteric-wisdom #inspirational #pyramid

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#equanimity #knowledge #meditation #mind #reality

No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance. ↗

— Robert Holden

#self-improvement

What is the secret of your serenity?” a student asked Sophia “Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable,” she replied. ↗

— David W. Jones

#serenity #serenity-prayer #love

I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us. ↗

— William Inge

#humor #love #promiscuity #sex #virginity

It is only by loving others that we can learn to live; living is rare nowadays...most people survive; that is all. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#god #hate #inspirational #judging-others #life

At the border of where I will literally not survive so long as I keep living in so much fear of the harsh judgments of others, I am finally conceding the truth to you all. I am finally conceding the truth to me. I am something other than straight. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#bisexuality #coming-out #homosexuality #love #pressure

Love is a feeling that is imposed on you. You cannot be lazy; it is up to you to make things work and make the best of it. ↗

— Kyra Gregory

#desire #feelings #love #relationships #sorrow

A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#confidence #finding-yourself #knowing-yourself #positive-thinking #self-acceptance

You cannot ask someone to like you or love you more than you like or love yourself. YOU have to set the standard. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#liking-yourself #loving-yourself #self-love #setting-the-standards #standards