#pta

If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music. ↗

— Chögyam Trungpa

#buddhism #crescendo #enlightenment #humanity #humor

Sie wird gebraucht, unsere Schuld, sie rechtfertigt viel im Leben anderer. ↗

— Max Frisch

#guilt #truth-of-life #life

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being. ↗

— John Fowles

#being #self-acceptance #life

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

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

— Tara Brach

#perfectionism #wholeness #life

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

— Tara Brach

#self-acceptance #life

The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#acknowledgement #contentment #happiness #life #realization

Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of time, an adagio of high notes, low notes an illusive movements. Then when I least expected it, I happened upon the missing notes in the life of Charlotte Howe Taylor. ↗

— Sally Armstrong

#adventure-romance #adventuresome-women #canadian #historical #native-american

We're all strange in our own strange way. ↗

— Mark O'Brien

#life #truth #life

This is it. ↗

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#awareness #moment #life