So much of our development seems rooted in acceptance (especially self-acceptance), which comes from a deep understanding about why we can do so — that we have already been accepted at a profound level:
In growing psychologically, one moves toward increasing autonomy and independence. In growing spiritually, one increasingly realizes how utterly dependent one is, on God and on the grace of God that comes through other people.
-- Gerald May
Resilience isn’t really about returning back to the way you were before, but is much more about reclaiming whatever new shape your form has taken. A resilience that doesn’t really ask us to forget, but that carries the memory of whatever harm or whatever fire we’ve been through.
-- Cole Arthur Riley
By walking into that pain, experiencing it fully, and moving through it, you metabolize it and put an end to it. In the process, you also grow, create more room in your nervous system for flow and coherence, and build your capacity for further growth.
-- Resmaa Menakem
In the most mature stage of spiritual development, I’m “just me,” warts and all. We are now fully detached from our own self-image and living in God’s image of us — which includes and loves both the good and the bad. We experience true serenity and freedom. This is the peace the world cannot give (see John 14:27) and full resting in God.
-- Richard Rohr
Prior 4 Observations (from Others).
