But there isn’t any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It’s there. I’m already whole.

One weekend it rained for 48 hours without stopping. The rain beat like bony fingers against the window panes. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Fungus was growing on the walls. I polished off a bottle...

Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over...

True love begins when you accept yourself in your totality. Then, and only then, can you completely love another.

Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread....

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

When did the skin on our bodies, the difference in our voice, or the direction our heart takes us decide whether or not we should have human rights?

The future happens. No matter how much we scream.

What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as they do – an extension of themselves, in fact! Even Christianity does not cure us, since one...

No matter what happens, you will always be Pack. Because you have that loyalty and restraint. Not human, not whatever, but Kate. Unique and different, but not separate.

Nowadays ‘invisibility’ was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.

You are here and you can’t escape it. Thoughts about why you came to be here and a poor-me mentality will not help you to resolve the situation. You cannot avoid being here now, in...

Mary watched the sunset from her carriage window, realizing that such beauty could never last. Life was a golden glory that faded in the wink of an eye. Life was a village fair that only...

Stark truth, is seldom met with open arms.

Everyone is a little bitter. We’re born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, “No you can’t.

It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women…that we should be the ones who so desperately need love…affection…acceptance.And yet, we suffer…many of us, for lack of it throughout our entire lives.”-Shackles of Honor

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

Whatever happens is an indication that at some level we’re ready for it, or at least we’ve got all the tools required in order to become ready, and face any problem or obstacle that may...

Karma does never return to punish. Its role is to assist with solving what has been left uncompleted. It always returns to you, when you are strong enough to look at it. You never are...

Acceptance into the All State band, chorus or orchestra is the only criteria for this honor.

AS IS” and I’ll take you that way, too.

To love, and be loved, this is the greatest challenge that any of us face in our lives.

It’s such an amazing awakening to realize that nothing in this universe happens TO YOU, 100% happens FOR YOU.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and...

Never let the principle of what you believe in become more important than the person.

One of the best things you can do in life is to embrace who you are. Once you do that NOTHING can stop you. You have found the greatest gift that has been given. The...

My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the...

The world of romance and business works on this principle – You may be rejected several times, but not everyone will reject you.

If you refuse to accept what is, and choose to see what could be, then you set a course for yourself that makes others take notice of you, respect you, revere you. It is then...

Allow yourself to celebrate your sense of freedom , your capacity to make a choice and your strength in facing the truth. Not everyone has the courage to do so, even if it hurts……Knowing is...

But with trust we can strive to accept even what we cannot understand.

I accept my body and its defects.I accept my characterand its weaknesses.I love myself as a perfect partof a perfect Whole.

Perhaps that’s a smile on Delia’s face-but Delia’s half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, “Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went.

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can...

Without the possibility of making mistakes, we wouldn’t need to bother about making a decision.

When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore, but neither would we forsake it or disclaim it either. Does a wolf...

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.

For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I’m having, too, are all first-time feelings. If it were something I’d experienced before, then I’d be able...

Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves...

A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the essence and uniqueness of others, when we subscribe to that religious philosophy of...

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors,...

Every relationship will suffer to some degree without finding self-acceptance and treating yourself like your own best friend.

The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

The degree of your mindset will confine you – just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.All seems beautiful to me.Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me;Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed,...

The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.

When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me.