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

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.

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.

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

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

Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!

It could be worse. I could be you.

You'll be ready for this change - when you're ready – not a moment before. Don't beat yourself up if you're not ready.

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.

As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates

Boston is the engine of the state's economy.

Real success is doing things right every day by not forgetting to express love to your friends.