Henry Miller Quotes about Acceptance

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Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.

Henry Miller

Running, Eye, Acceptance

Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death. By acceptance of all aspects of life, good & bad, right & wrong, yours & mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a dance, 'the dance of life,' metamorphosis.

Henry Miller

Art, Good Life, Acceptance

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

Henry Miller

Acceptance, May, Way

Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with anothers way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off.

Henry Miller

Acceptance, Simple, Hands

Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. But to arrive at this end, which is only a beginning (for we haven’t begun to live yet!), a man has got to learn the doctrine of acceptance, that is, of unconditional surrender, which is love.

Henry Miller

Acceptance, Men, Expression

Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.254, New Directions Publishing