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You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.

The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.

Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.

What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.

The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. [...] The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. They take the ready-made axioms laid down by others, and walk blindly in a rut without trying to see for themselves.

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.

The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

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