Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.

In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.

I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

Aloneeverything changes.Some might call it distorted realitybut it's exactly the place I need to be.

Personal relationship with God is the main condition for quality in life.

Drinking water neither makes a man sick nor in debt nor his wife a widow.

No one can bring to God what you can.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

If children could, if adults knew.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.