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On Acceptance
Robin Lynn
September 17, 2024
Accept who you are
as you are unfolding
as you are.
Accept the world
as it is unfolding
as it is.
No need to change.
No need to change it.
Accept what it is.
Accept who you are.
3 ideas + 3 questions on acceptance.
Acceptance is your willingness to accept who you are. Acceptance is your capacity to accept life as it is. Acceptance is your ability to acknowledge and participate in the reality unfolding in front of you — hard or easy — without resistance. Acceptance does not care if you enjoy or dislike it, with acceptance you carry no judgement about it. Acceptance is not a passive, apathetic or complacent endeavor. Acceptance immerses you in a courageous conversation with life, directed into action by your engagement and responsibility. Acceptance calls you to become a deeply engaged participant in life, especially when it is difficult and different than you imagine it to be. With acceptance you befriend the moments of life you are tempted to resist deeply, and this reminds you, you respond to life differently when your imagination meets reality. Acceptance asks you to be, do and become greater than any dreams could conceive. Acceptance summons a responsibility often larger than you have a present capacity to be. Acceptance serves your growth and development and leads you to deeper, more authentic living in the world. When you are done with accepting life as it is, you can decide what you want to do about it. If you can change it, change it. And if you cannot, accept it.
3 ideas on acceptance:
Acceptance is an antidote to resistance. Your preference for acceptance grows with your frequency to choose it in favor of resistance. Each time you let go of your resistance, you leave a small part of you behind who is unwilling to heal. Accept and mourn the loss then celebrate your decision to heal a small part of you.
Acceptance is about letting go of expectation. When expectation is tempered, you deepen your experience of contentment. When you are more content with your life, you begin to enjoy more of your life.
Acceptance is the foundation for true change. Accept what is unfolding in front of you and become open to living in a possibility beyond what you imagine life to be. When dreams meet reality, they evolve into unexpected, challenging and beautiful adventures beyond anything you could dream. When you become flexible with your dreams, true transformation begins.
Plus 3 questions. When there is suffering in your inner and/or outer world:
Which is the path of least resistance: ignore it or accept it?
Which path do you prefer?
Which path do you choose?
3 insights on acceptance:
Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world. Because it goes against your training, education, your culture. From the very beginning you have been told how you should be. Nobody has ever told you that you are good as you are.
Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.
Acceptance is observation of life and suspension of judgments about whether what is happening in life is good or bad, right or wrong.
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