{"author":"T. Scott McLeod","author_id":"T.+Scott+McLeod","total_quotes":40,"quotes":[{"text":"When I was young, I lacked certainty, too,” he says. “I have the certainty, now, of not needing certainty. I have the certainty, of uncertainty. The peace, with being uncertain. All is good. All is holy. Whatever you choose, it can be fine. Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed. Rejection never ceases with rejection, but with acceptance alone is healed.","author":"T. Scott McLeod","tags":["buddhism","spirituality","zen"],"id":11464,"author_id":"T.+Scott+McLeod"},{"text":"To love, and be loved, this is the greatest challenge that any of us face in our lives.","author":"T. Scott McLeod","tags":["acceptance","acceptance-of-others","love","lovers-quarrel","relationship","self-acceptance"],"id":18056,"author_id":"T.+Scott+McLeod"},{"text":"Stand in your own two shoes.","author":"T. Scott McLeod","tags":["empowering","empowering-beliefs","empowerment","responsibility","self-responsibility"],"id":22628,"author_id":"T.+Scott+McLeod"},{"text":"We come to the end of suffering, through suffering.","author":"T. Scott McLeod","tags":["enlightenment","peace","suffering","the-end-of-suffering"],"id":28327,"author_id":"T.+Scott+McLeod"},{"text":"You had to break, to be unbroken. In the brokenness, I had found, that which was unbroken. That which was perfect, and beautiful, and complete.","author":"T. Scott McLeod","tags":["healing","healing-in-the-hurting-places","healing-the-emotional-self","imperfections","perfection"],"id":30843,"author_id":"T.+Scott+McLeod"},{"text":"There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.","author":"T. Scott McLeod","tags":["truth","truth-of-life"],"id":101687,"author_id":"T.+Scott+McLeod"},{"text":"When you love yourself, utterly and completely, all of yourself, what you will discover then is that you love others, all others, utterly and completely.","author":"T. Scott McLeod","tags":["enlightenment","love","loving-others","loving-your-fellow-man"],"id":105055,"author_id":"T.+Scott+McLeod"},{"text":"Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.","author":"T. Scott McLeod","tags":["awakening","buddhism","enlightening","enlightenment","meditation","spiritual-journey","spiritual-journeys","spirituality","the-power-of-now","zen"],"id":118892,"author_id":"T.+Scott+McLeod"},{"text":"I feel so trapped, by my ego.","author":"T. Scott McLeod","tags":["ego","egocentrism","egoic-consciousness","egotistical"],"id":133038,"author_id":"T.+Scott+McLeod"},{"text":"To hate the hate was just more hate; to reject the rejection was just more rejection; to judge the judging, just more judging.","author":"T. Scott McLeod","tags":["acceptance","acceptance-of-oneself","enlightenment","love","overcoming-hatred","overcoming-negativity","self-love"],"id":137619,"author_id":"T.+Scott+McLeod"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":40,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}