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David Richo is an American writer born in 1940. His works primarily focus on personal growth, spiritual cultivation, and interpersonal relationships, which are well-received by readers.

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“A person with self-trust knows that a healthy relationship is not based on absolute trust in anyone else. No one is trustworthy all the time. Adult relationships are based on acceptance of that given of human fallibility, not on rigid trust but flexible, unconditional love that allows us to get angry about betrayal but then leaves us enough heart to forgive it when a partner apologizes, makes amends, and truly changes.”

Relationship Acceptance Trust

Book:How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

“..how crushed and disappointed we feel when we attach ourselves to someone whose love turns out to be a hoax, who shows no real acceptance of what we feel and who we are. Who can blame us for numbing ourselves again?”

Love Acceptance Disappointment Attachment Numb Hoax

Book:How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

“The best response comes from action, not from intellect. For example, we may hear this question: “If love rules the world, why do children starve?” Our answer is simply “We feed hungry children.” “Why do so many good people die painful deaths?” Becomes “We work with the dying.”

Love Action Acceptance Response Intellect

Author:David Richo

“Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.”

Giving Self Problem Names Process Levels Psychology Childhood Self Esteem Acceptance Giving Up Normal Seeking Esteem Lifts Approval True Self Components Kinship Perfectly Normal

Author:David Richo

“Our higher needs include making full use of our gifts, finding and fulfilling our calling, being loved and cherished just for ourselves, and being in relationships that honor all of these. Such needs are fulfilled in an atmosphere of the five A’s by which love is shown: attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection, and allowing.”

Needs Use Love Is Attention Five Acceptance Higher Honor Calling Findings Affection Appreciation Atmosphere Allowing Fulfilled Fulfilling Being Loved

Book:Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy

Source: Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy

“At every stage of life, our inner self requires the nurturance of loving people attuned to our feelings and responsive to our needs who can foster our inner resources of personal power, lovability, and serenity. Those who love us understand us and are available to us with an attention, appreciation, acceptance, and affection we can feel. They make room for us to be who we are.”

People Needs Feels Self Feelings Rooms Attention Stage Acceptance Resources Affection Appreciation Available Who We Are Serenity Inner Self Personal Power Stages Of Life

Book:How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

“The Five A’s (attention, appreciation, acceptance, affection, allowing) are simultaneously the fulfillment of our earliest needs, the requirements of adult intimacy and of universal compassion, and the essential qualities of mindfulness practice.”

Needs Attention Quality Compassion Practice Five Acceptance Essentials Mindfulness Adults Universal Affection Appreciation Intimacy Fulfillment Allowing Requirements

Author:David Richo

“Once we understand that what happens beyond our control may be just what we need, we see that acceptance of reality can be our way of participating in our own evolution.”

Way Needs May Reality Happens Acceptance Evolution Participating

Book:The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them

Source: The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them