#acceptance

I loved Enso Roshi’s teachings. I loved learning about life. I loved life. It was a good thing to feel. I loved life, and I loved learning, and I was still learning. I was not, yet, done. At the end of our journeys, there would be an end to the journey. Maybe. If I was lucky. If providence shone down upon me gently. I would find love. I would find acceptance. Complete love. Complete acceptance. I would know, that the self, is an illusion. I would come to enlightenment, but that would also mean, there would be no ‘I’ there. I would realize that the ‘I’ was an illusion, all along, just like some great dream. This is what the wise sages say, the great teachings, the mystical teachings, not only from the East, but also from the West. The Gospel of Saint Thomas. Thomas Merton. Thomas, like I was Thomas, and also doubting, the main reasons I’d chosen the name. If nothing else, it was lovable, just as it is. My life. Even the parts I didn’t love, could I love them? The struggles. It was all part of the journey, and would I not look back fondly on this, at some time? Look at how arduous and sincere I’d been. Look at how worried I’d been. Look at how insecure I’d been. Look at how I’d struggled. Trying to find my way. Would I not look back upon myself, affectionately and fondly and with love? ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#buddhism #enlightenment #journey #love #loving-one-s-self

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#charitable #child #different #different types #global

My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors. ↗

— Tom Baker

#actor #also #believe #capacity #christianity

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. ↗

— Brene Brown

#self-love #love

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#becoming #documentation #lack #problem

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above. ↗

— Czeslaw Milosz

#acceptance #changes #considered #defect #does

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#self-acceptance #inspirational

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance. ↗

— Brené Brown

#belonging #self-acceptance #courage

I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano’s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space... ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#age

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#barrier #general #position #principal