What is the secret of your serenity?” a student asked Sophia
“Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable,” she replied.
Tag: acceptance serenity serenity-prayer
And then Jonah heard God’s voice.
“Jonah, do you know what the difference is between you and the trees?”
He was confident it was God because God usually asked questions but gave no answers. Jonah didn’t need a divine answer to this question, he knew it.
“Yes,” he said. “The difference between me and the trees is that the trees let go of their leaves. I keep holding onto mine. The trees make room for new life. I don’t.
Tag: acceptance loss death openness grief letting-go god-s-grace death-of-a-loved-one new-life
The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands, but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you. We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.
Barbara KingsolverTag: acceptance disabilities
Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed.
T. Scott McLeodTag: love acceptance transcendence enlightening enlightenment enlightened
To hate the hate was just more hate; to reject the rejection was just more rejection; to judge the judging, just more judging.
T. Scott McLeodTag: love acceptance enlightenment self-love acceptance-of-oneself overcoming-hatred overcoming-negativity
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
T. Scott McLeodTag: love acceptance buddhism peace meditation enlightenment dark-night-of-the-soul overcoming-challenges struggles struggling overcoming-difficulties personal-journey
I loved Enso Roshi’s teachings. I loved learning about life. I loved life. It was a good thing to feel. I loved life, and I loved learning, and I was still learning. I was not, yet, done. At the end of our journeys, there would be an end to the journey. Maybe. If I was lucky. If providence shone down upon me gently. I would find love. I would find acceptance. Complete love. Complete acceptance. I would know, that the self, is an illusion. I would come to enlightenment, but that would also mean, there would be no ‘I’ there. I would realize that the ‘I’ was an illusion, all along, just like some great dream. This is what the wise sages say, the great teachings, the mystical teachings, not only from the East, but also from the West. The Gospel of Saint Thomas. Thomas Merton. Thomas, like I was Thomas, and also doubting, the main reasons I’d chosen the name. If nothing else, it was lovable, just as it is. My life. Even the parts I didn’t love, could I love them? The struggles. It was all part of the journey, and would I not look back fondly on this, at some time? Look at how arduous and sincere I’d been. Look at how worried I’d been. Look at how insecure I’d been. Look at how I’d struggled. Trying to find my way. Would I not look back upon myself, affectionately and fondly and with love?
T. Scott McLeodTag: love acceptance buddhism journey meditation enlightenment spiritual-growth loving-yourself the-journey spiritual-journey loving-one-s-self personal-journey
Do you want love, or do you want control?
T. Scott McLeodTag: love true-love acceptance peace relationship-struggles
To love, and be loved, this is the greatest challenge that any of us face in our lives.
T. Scott McLeodTag: love acceptance self-acceptance relationship acceptance-of-others lovers-quarrel
Is it love, or is it attachment? Do you want to love her, or do you want to control her?
T. Scott McLeodTag: love true-love acceptance romance acceptance-of-others
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