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“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life-that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“The most difficult dilemma for a person is perhaps when his heart testifies to an inevitable reality yet his tongue will not proclaim it, when his mind screams in acceptance of truth but he cant bring himself to state it.”

Mind Heart Persons States Reality Difficult Acceptance Tongue Inevitable Scream Cant Dilemma

Author:Umera Ahmed

“I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South was the true course; and I think so still. Controversy of all kinds will, in my opinion, only serve to continue excitement and passion, and will prevent the public mind from the acknowledgement and acceptance of the truth.”

Thinking Mind Kind Stills War Passion Courses Silence Opinion Acceptance South All Kinds Excitement Civil War Controversy Hostility Acknowledgement

Book:Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee

Source: Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee

“I am safe and secure. I exhale any anxiety and inhale calm. As my world expands so do my heart and mind. I am willing to stay open and accept all the miracles and abundance the universe has to offer me.”

“One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all those vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem.”

Source: How to stop worrying & start living

“A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.”

World Mind This World Acceptance Produce Harmony Seeming Discord

Book:Self-realization

Source: Self-realization

“Know that whatever is happening in your life right now, it's there for a reason. Just accept the things the way they are. Just relax and let go of all the mental constructs that your mind is creating. Acceptance leads to wholesome right action.”

Knows Way Mind Reason Action Healing Accepting Acceptance Right Now Letting Go Creating Happenings Relax Constructs Right Action

Author:Brandon Bays

“Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.”

Mind Suffering Acceptance Birth Edges

Book:One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life

Source: One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life

“Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.”

Should Mind Kind Problem Accepting Acceptance Benefits Expectations Peaceful

Author:Swami Satchidananda

“It's easy .... it's a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing ... it's called freedom that's what it is, plain and simple!”

Mind Easy Simple Acceptance Persistence Plain And Simple

Author:Gary Busey

“Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of religion. Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of science. In other words, religion has become a matter of the heart and science has become a matter of the mind. This regrettable state of affairs does not reflect the fact that physiologically , one cannot exist without the other. Mind and heart are only different aspects of us.”

Mind Heart Doe Different Matter States Facts Acceptance Aspect Fundamentals Affair Proof Rejection Characteristics Heart And Mind Art And Science Matters Of The Heart

Author:Gary Zukav

“Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.”

Mind Acceptance Resistance Identification

Book:Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

“The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease.”

Mind Struggle Worst Acceptance Disease

Author:Sengcan

“We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.”

“We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re not undesirable. That’s all just a set of lies we tell to soothe the experience of the prisons we put ourselves in.”

Mind Body Truth Desire Beauty Honesty Acceptance Lies Shame Prison Authenticity Trans Undesirable Closet Body Shame Transgender Lgbt Closeted

Author:Agnostic Zetetic