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“Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and respect for the capacity of the group, and skills in releasing individual expression Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem Acceptance of the problems experienced by the group where they are clearly defined as issues Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future”

“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

“Hopefully that will be seen as a response, a leadership responding to an issue and therefore one's authority, while it's not as high if you didn't have the problem, it does mean that people say 'well he used his authority to come up with a solution in double-quick time that met with broader public acceptance.'”

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Author:Brian Cowen

“A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.”

Mean Problem Wish Accepting Conditions Acceptance Ready Solutions Complexes Solve Attempting Escaping

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Gratitude makes things right.”

Source: Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers

“There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.”

“Relaxation, acceptance, and keeping open mind are key. First of all, peak performance isn't possible if one is not relaxed, and if one is going to stay relaxed they must simply accept problems when they arise and decide to solve them. If I can't do a move I merely accept that I haven't discovered the right sequence, instead of trying the same sequence over and over or just quitting. I will try to do it 20 or 30 different ways, making subtle changes in body position and fot placement, until I find something that does work. That's what I mean by keeping an open mind.”

“A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown, the problem to be solved, the mystery to be clarified. It is never a matter of civil war; even though of different opinions, or of different political leanings, scientists dispute each other, they compete, but they do not battle: they are bound together by a strong alliance, by the common faith "in the validity of Maxwell's or Boltzmann's equations," and by the common acceptance of Darwinism and the molecular structure of DNA.”

“We fail to see the gospel as the solution to our greatest problem-our guilt, condemnation, and alienation from God. Beyond that, we fail to see it as the basis of our day-to-day acceptance with Him. As a result, many believers live in spiritual poverty.”

Problem Spiritual Results Poverty Failing Acceptance Solutions Bases Guilt Believer Day To Day Alienation Condemnation

Author:Jerry Bridges

“The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”

Life Important Problem Acceptance Problem Solving Memories Dreams Reflections

Author:Carl Jung

“People are being forced to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.”

People Problem Reality Understanding Animal Moral Principles Growing Acceptance Emotional Capacity Cruelty Animal Cruelty

Author:Wayne Pacelle

“First you have to witness that you are stressing out: Oh, my trigger is here. The news is stressing me out or This line is so long. Let yourself feel it. You don't want to spiritually bypass these problems. Give yourself a couple of minutes to sit in the feeling. Acceptance sets you free from the stress of expectation.”

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Author:Gabrielle Bernstein

“There's no one who can say 'this person is wrong there and right here', and that 'one is right about that and wrong about this'. This is what could allow populations, or even two human beings, to live together. We will only solve problems by the acceptance of, and enrichment by, our differences.”

Humans Persons Two Problem Together Differences Human Beings Acceptance Population Solve Enrichment

Author:Catherine Camus

“As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory. People are being forced, to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.”

People Problem Reality Understanding Animal Moral Acceptance Emotional Protection Cruelty Animal Cruelty

Author:Wayne Pacelle

“We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.”

Problem Situation Accepting Acceptance Solve Homeless Homelessness

Author:Linda Lingle

“The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.”

Hard Problem Joy Felt Levels Moral Acceptance Standards Attraction Mutual Admiration Intensity Adoration Blast Love Relationship Flourishing Physical Attraction Peace And Joy

Author:Cornel West

“The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.”

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.”

People Problem Inspiration Opinion Acceptance Accepted Self Respect Acceptance Of Others

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”

Problem Acceptance Social Justice Tyranny Tyrants Stem Rotten Filthy

Author:Dorothy Day

“Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.”

Mean Real Problem Dies Animal Watches Teach Dying Acceptance Integrity Plant Surrender Being Yourself Being Real Power Of Now

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.”

Whole Problem Happiness Difficult Sound Simple Moral Acceptance Discipline Essence Oneself Outlook Simple Things Life Happiness Epitome Actual Life

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.”

Trying Self Problem Motivational Pain Peace Challenges Acceptance Wall Victory Difficulty Meetings Trials Denial Self Acceptance Numb Finding Peace Confronting

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self- generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.”

Firsts Self Problem Running Economy Information Acceptance Keys Resources First Time Drowning

Author:John Naisbitt

“The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.”

Love Problem Acceptance Fundamentals Patient Crucial Inability Unloved Inability To Love

Book:Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients

Source: Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients

“In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of science. New facts, new problems, new difficulties as they arise are accepted, solved, or removed by this theory; and its principles are illustrated by the progress and conclusions of every well established branch of human knowledge.”

Source: Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays

“Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and consciousness. People seem to want there to be an absolute threshold between the living and the nonliving, and between the thinking and the "merely mechanical," ... But the onward march of science seems to force us ever more clearly into accepting intermediate levels of such properties.”

“No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.”

People Mind Problem Earth Hurt Accepting Acceptance Reactions

Author:Vernon Howard

“You have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!'”

Problem Acceptance Shapes Who I Am

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak; it is unshakable.”

Needs Heart May Mean Doe Problem Happens Acceptance Mets Weak Response Reactions Peaceful Unconscious Inaction Whatever Happens Unshakable Peaceful Heart

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”

“In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.”

Whole Problem Moral Acceptance Essence Oneself Outlook Memories Dreams Reflections Transcendentalism Epitome Outlook On Life

Author:Carl Jung

“Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.”

Problem Acceptance Becoming Documentation

Author:Wietse Venema

“If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.”

Ifs Problem Suffering Dies Acceptance Terrified No Problem

Author:Alan Watts

“Patient acceptance is often considered a weak and passive response to problems that we do not have the power or courage to solve. In reality, however, being patient is far from being passive. There is nothing strong or courageous in reacting to hardship or insults with anger - all we are doing is being defeated by our delusions.”

Problem Reality Strong Acceptance Weak Response Patient Solve Insult Delusion Courageous Hardship Passive Defeated Reacting

Author:Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

“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

“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

“Several of our children have married outside my faith. Would I prefer they marry within their religion? Yes, because I know that marrying outside the family faith will very likely bring them more problems-but not from me. My job is to accept them and love them, not to criticize them and make their lives more difficult.”

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Author:Bernie Siegel