I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.

In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.

The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved

Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

Mamma says gratitude helps us to see what is there instead of what isn't.

ordered me a sky from a florist

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

We should learn from children not to hold grudges. Children often fight when they play together but they quickly make up and their fights don't deteriorate into bitter feuds.

The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.

Put simply, we must always remember that separate but equal is not equal.