Acceptance Quote by Stephen Batchelor Download Open image “The first step in this process of mindfulness is radical self-acceptance .” — Stephen Batchelor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acceptance First step First steps Firsts Mental health Mindfulness Process Radical Self Self acceptance Steps
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness involves three fundamental processes: forming intention, paying attention, and adjusting your attitude (Shapiro, Carlson, Astin, & Freedman, 2006).” — Patricia A. Jennings Copy Share Image
“The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.” — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught. This book is meant to be a… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is the difficult art of simply replacing thinking with experiencing.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The challenge of mindfulness is to work with the very circumstances that you find yourself in - no matter how unpleasant, how discouraging, how… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The whole path of mindfulness is this: Whatever you are doing, be aware of it. — Dipa Ma Copy Share Image
“Everyone has their own stuff. And it's imperative to recognize that it will bubble up more as mindfulness is developed. It's like a cleansing… — Shea Matthew Fisher Copy Share Image
For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place… — Ruby Wax Copy Share Image
“Gotama did for the self what Copernicus did for the earth: he put it in its rightful place, despite its continuing to appear just… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“We perceive the world in a particular way and confidently expect it to conform to its appearance. But we fail to recognize that certain… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Anxiety, alienation, loneliness, emptiness, and meaninglessness are the fruits of living as an isolated subject admist a multitude of lifeless objects. Although our scope… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“... We have to constantly confront our deepest anxieties, our emptiness, our despair, our doubts; and there is nowhere for us to escape and… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“There is nothing one can have that one cannot fear to lose. Instead of living life in order to have more abundantly, live life… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity. — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full potential if… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“The inner aim of thought is never fully realized until it ripens into vocal utterances through which others can have access- albeit indirect- to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Our religion, with its beliefs, rituals, and dogmas becomes another segment among all the other segments that constitute our linear and fragmented existence. It… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude. — Ronald Blythe Copy Share Image
“Loving someone who does not love you back hurts, alot, i know. It is liking seeing these pair of shoes at the retail store… — Nomthandazo Tsembeni Copy Share Image
Take responsibily for your past, the bad memories of poor decisions you took were your choices once, and you liked them for the moment… — Aruho Marvin Copy Share Image
Let us learn to accept and appreciate things now, and we'll find more happiness in every moment we live. Happiness comes when we stop… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Accepting the challenges in life makes it interesting and overcoming them makes it eloquent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Acceptance is the only thing you should teach. Be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Dalit, you must inculcate acceptance, not tolerance. — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image