acceptance

The moment passed _ but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. _ But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.

If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways.

I haven__ been out driving at this time of night in many years, much less in an unfamiliar area. These are the things that scare you as you get older. You understand night all too well, all its attendant meanings. You try to avoid it, work around it, keep it from entering your house. Your weary, ornery body tells you to stay up late, sleep less, keep the lights on, don__ go into the bedroom__f you have to sleep, sleep in your chair, at the table. Everything is about avoiding the night. Because of that, I suppose that I should be scared out here in the dark, but I am finally past that, I think.(p.204)

I prayed for someone to love me as much as I loved you. Eventually I came to see that that Someone was me.

Chiron reminds us that only through recognising and accepting our inner wounds can we find true healing.

We__e hungry for acceptance__rom ourselves even more than from others__or love, for fulfillment, for peace. We__e hungry for a life we think we don__ deserve or can__ have, for the person we know we can be if only we__ give ourselves the chance.

Self-love is not the process of ignoring things, paying attention to fewer flaws or forcing yourself to look away from the parts of you that you perceive as ugly or unwanted. Self-love is the process of expanding your awareness, of seeing those flaws and imperfections alongside the incredible potential of the universe flowing within you, alongside the eternal truth of life flowing within your veins in each second, alongside the flickers of creativity and opportunity present within each moment of your existence. Like this, the imperfections persist, but only as lovable quirks, like a bad doorknob on the front door of a cottage in paradise, like a few thorns on a beautiful rose, like a cloud in a sunset. Like this, what was once unwanted becomes essential, memorable, humbling.

To hate the hate was just more hate; to reject the rejection was just more rejection; to judge the judging, just more judging.

Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation.

In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody.

I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own.

Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It is possible to live and not know.

Self-love is crucial for the betterment of our lives and for a higher quality of life.

There is no way to genuinely, powerfully, truly love yourself while crafting a mask of perfection. I know, you know, we all know__t's hard to let your pimples and your flaws be seen. It's hard to stumble and bumble. It's hard to not know the right things to do or say. It's hard to not look like TV.Sometimes, it's really hard for me to be the awkward mess that I am when I'm authentic, instead of having runway authenticity__ll natural, but flawless. But every time I allow that to be okay, not just around myself but around others__ affirm something to myself. I affirm, to myself more than anyone else, that I am lovable and acceptable unconditionally. I affirm that it's okay to take on and take in all the flavours and hues of human experience, and not just the ones that are acceptable in this culture, in this time, in this place.And that kind of acceptance, that kind of love__hat's the kind of love that creates miracles. That's the kind of love I really need. That's the kind of love that makes approval taste like cardboard.

Embrace the flow of your life path, living with grace and ease while showing love towards yourself and others along your journey.

No one's approval is enough to make up for a lack of self-love, which is really a lack of self-awareness.When we feel a desire to be loved, it isn't other people's love we need. It's our own relationship with love that we're longing for, our own awareness of being interconnected with others, our own sense of the magic of our own interwoven existence. To seek the fulfillment of this desire in others' approval is a losing battle. It will never be enough. No one can compliment you enough to supplement for the acceptance that you need from your own self, in each moment. Acceptance for your struggles and your talents. Acceptance for your humanity. Celebration of that humanity.Love is an inside job.

I scroll through iPhone photos and see that if I delete pictures of myself with a double chin, I will erase all proof of my glorious life.

Public acceptance will never replace self-love. Nor will group membership add, create, or dictate your value.