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Accepting Quote by Mark Nepo

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“Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.”

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The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.

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Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.

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A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.

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“Yet beneath all the talk of tragedy and grace, I have come to believe that we are destined to be opened by the living…

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The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.

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From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

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Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.…

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

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There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,…

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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if…

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Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life.

Stephen Colbert

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It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.

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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

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Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.…

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Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine…

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… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

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