Acceptance and change Quote by Shunryu Suzuki Download Open image “Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.” — Shunryu Suzuki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acceptance and change Accepting Accepting change Accepting the truth Change Change management Composure Management Managing change Suffering Transience Truth
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful,… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
We must suffer in order to go to God. We forget this truth far too often. — Madeleine Sophie Barat Copy Share Image
Because we all carry the Truth within us as our essence, we recognize it immediately. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?' — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
When we do not reject our suffering, or add anything to it, pain is simply pain. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away? — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind, there are few.” — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with the ground,… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“The word dialectic (in dialectical behavior therapy) means to balance and compare two things that appear very different or even contradictory. In dialectical behavior… — Matthew McKay Copy Share Image
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
