#pta

I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only one life and each of us is free to shape it through the choices we make. Seeking can’t get anyone out of the tangle because everything is tangled up…it’s much easier to keep up the fight between good and evil, holy and profane, us and them. But as awareness grows, these opposites begin to calm down in their clashes, and something else emerges- a world you feel at home in. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#forgiveness #spirituality #forgiveness

I turned to face Audrey, and everything I loved was right there in her eyes, the memories tangible: the schooldays and sleepovers, the cheap bottles of wine and sappy chick flicks. She was there for my mother’s drunken relapses, there to hold me until I fell asleep the first time the ex from Seattle hit me. It was all there, and my God, each memory was suddenly sacred and the sun rose and set upon it. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#closure #friendship #grief #loyalty #memories

Talking with Elaine like that, with no judgment from her or anything, seemed to bring my feelings more to the surface so I could look at them. I love times like that; you don't get many of them. (Walker, in STOTAN!) ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#introspection #self-reflection #unconditional_acceptance #friendship

There was a lot about my life that was crappy, now that I couldn't talk. But if I hadn't gotten drunk that night, if I hadn't gotten in that accident, would I have ever had this moment? Lying there in the sun, holding Sam's hand like time didn't exist and the real world couldn't touch us? Somehow I didn't think so. ↗

— Keary Taylor

#acceptance #accepting #depression #feeling-infinite #friendship

I have found that the less expectation you put on others, the more happiness you will find with them and yourself. ↗

— K.L. Toth

#acceptance #friendship #happiness #love #peace

Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present. ↗

— Doc Severinsen

#acceptance #audience #become #certain #day-in

What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them? ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#new-york-city #temptation #humor

The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions. It is the one true and perfect symbol of the universe. And it is the one most accurate symbol of you. Spread your arms in an embrace, throw your head back, and prepare to receive and send coordinates of being. For, at last you know—you are the navigator, the captain, and the ship. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#captain #compass-rose #coordinates #direction #directions

There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are. ↗

— Sarah Ockler

#inspirational #reality #inspirational

What is done cannot be undone, Knowing that, face it but do not run. ↗

— Rupansh Gupta

#inspirational #rupansh-gupta #the-sojourn #inspirational