Acceptance

Acceptance is best understood as nonresistance to reality. Try as you may, no one can make an event that has already happened not have happened.

That’s what acceptance is: nonresistance. It is having the commitment to fully allow reality to pass directly into the highest part of your being. In the end, all you are surrendering is your resistance to reality. You learn to let it come in, even if it is not comfortable as it pours into you.

Acceptance is the full embrace of our personal experience in an empowered, not in a victimized, state. It’s choosing to feel with openness and curiosity, so that you can live the kind of life you want to live

Acceptance doesn’t mean adaptation. It doesn’t mean resignation to the sorry and miserable way things are. It doesn’t mean accepting or tolerating any sort of abuse. It means, for the present moment, we acknowledge and accept our circumstances, including ourselves and the people in our lives, as we and they are. It is only from that state that we h

Acceptance occurs as we begin to get used to the discomfort. We realise that the emotional pain will not kill us.

The acceptance of suffering is a journey into death. Facing deep pain, allowing it to be, taking your attention into it, is to enter death consciously. When you have died this death, you realize that there is no death — and there is nothing to fear. Only the ego dies. Imagine a ray of sunlight that has forgotten it is an inseparable part of the sun

Acceptance is the path to creativity, in fact, it is creativity. Until you accept, nothing new can be; you will have only the past. If you want a new world, accept the world as it is. If you want a wholly new world, accept it wholly.

So, acceptance comes as a result of disengaging from the common emotion and understanding that you are not your emotions, and neither are you responsible for other people’s emotions.