Up: [[Accept Reality]] Created: 2024-05-05 Updated: 2026-03-14 > [!orbit] Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche > Facing the bluntness of reality is the highest form of sanity and enlightened vision… Devotion proceeds through various stages of unmaking until we reach the point of seeing the world directly and simply without imposing our fabrications… > [!Orbit] Joan Didion > I’m not telling you to make the world better I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. > [!Orbit] Steven Hayes, one of the founders of ACT, says… > Acceptance is not passive tolerance or resignation but an intentional behaviour that alters the function of inner experience from events to be avoided to a focus of interest, curiosity, and observation. > [!Orbit] [[Marie-Louise von Franz]] > It’s easy to be a naive idealist. It’s easy to be a cynical realist. It’s quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame. > [!Orbit] [[John O’Donohue]] in *Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom* > The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life. In a vital sense, perception is reality. (p.105) > [!Orbit] Pema Chödrön > The everyday practice is simply to develop complete acceptance of all situations, emotions, and people. > [!Orbit] Anonymous > Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution. > [!Orbit] Connie Zwieg in *The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from role to soul* > When we resist *what is*, we block the development of our soul. (p.74) > [!Orbit] Katrina Kenison in *Magical Journey* > Perhaps the real point of life is simply to wear us down until we have no choice but to start abandoning our defenses. We learn that the way things are is simply the way they are meant to be right now… (p. 46) > [!Orbit] Pádraig Ó Tuama, *In the Shelter: finding a home in the world* > … it can help to find the words to tell the truth of where you are now. If you can find the courage to name “here” — especially in the place where you do not wish to be — it can help you be there. Instead of resenting another’s words of gladness or pain, it may be possible to hear it simply as another location. They are there and I am here. At another point, we will be in different locations, and everybody will pass by many locations in their life. The pain is only deepened when the location is resented or, even worse, unnamed. (p. 12)