"The Five A’s (attention, appreciation, acceptance, affection, allowing)……" — David Richo
"The Five A’s (attention, appreciation, acceptance, affection, allowing) are simultaneously the fulfillment of our earliest needs, the requirements of adult intimacy and of universal compassion, and the essential qualities of mindfulness practice."
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34 Quotes by David Richo
David Richo has 34 quotes on this site.
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Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.
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Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth.…
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A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you"…
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In mindful grief, we become the landing strip that allows any feelings to arrive. Some crash, some land softly. Some…
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Evoke one good memory for each bad one from now on.
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In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a…
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We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out…
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Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.
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In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do…
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Trust in someone means that we no longer have to protect ourselves. We believe we will not be hurt or…
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Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.
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When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those…
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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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