stuff tagged with "acceptance"
You are afraid of surrender because you don't want to lose control. But you never had control; all you had was anxiety.
Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
When I was young, I thought that nervousness and fear would disappear over time. But I realized that not only does it not disappear, it gets even worse. The only thing that changed is, now I accept it. I know it’s going to be there. I know how to deal with it. Now, with experience, I know I’m gonna be scared when the fight is coming; I know I’m not going to sleep well the week of the fight, but I accept it. [Early on in my career] I would freak out, sleeping only four hours the night before a fight. I put more pressure on myself, because I thought I wouldn’t be able to perform my best because of lack of sleep. But now I know it’s normal. I accept it. It’s a suffering process that I have to go through before a fight. But it’s still as bad as it was; the only difference is that I accept it now.
You will always struggle with not feeling productive until you accept that your own joy can be something you produce.
Anything human can happen to me, and I will do my best to handle it.
The invitation of life is to show up and pay attention, to wake up to the present moment, and to be fully alive in the face of impermanence.
We must let go of the life we have planned so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Last year a foolish monk. This year: no change.
