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

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

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

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

We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.

When do we stop crying over our own injuries? When we get old enough to swallow our tears, or when the people we love stop responding to our cries of pain?

I love you, Skye. You’re in my heart, in my head, under my skin. You’re my present and my future.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Healing means accepting all parts of ourselves, not just the parts we like, but all of us.

If you don't shut up, how can I answer your questions!

If you gave up, you've already lost. If you keep going, you get to a new level.

If you don't execute on your plans, then you don't reach anywhere.

Hospitals are great places, and you can learn from them, but you don't necessarily need to go in anytime you get the sniffles. And maybe you shouldn't treat pregnancy as a disease.

Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.