"My personal opinion is that the neutral position……" — Andrew Weil
"My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice."
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109 Quotes by Andrew Weil
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It is unrealistic to want to be happy all the time.
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More Acceptance Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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