The Deepest Acceptance

And so it’s not that there is no me—it’s that when I take a fresh look, right now, I can’t find something separate from life itself called a me.

The moment you come to a mental conclusion about a sensation, in a sense you’ve stopped seeing and feeling, really feeling, what’s actually there. You’ve moved into a mental story about your experience. So come back to what’s actually happening and take another look now.

I teach one thing and one thing only: a deep and fearless acceptance of whatever comes your way.

in reality you are not a separate person, not an individual self, but the open space in which all of the little waves of experience—thoughts, sensations, sounds, feelings—come and go. You are, quite literally, what you seek. You are the consciousness that holds the dance of form.

The truth is that their pain, in this moment, is real to them, and if we are to begin to find the wholeness within present experience, we must first validate and honor that present experience, no matter how illusory we perceive it to be, and, from there, move to find out what is really true. I meet you in your dream, and we explore the dream togeth

If you want to suffer, compare this moment with your image of how it should be!

All thoughts and feelings are allowed to come and go in what you are. • Deep acceptance is not something you achieve—it’s what you are in your essence. What you are is the open space in which all waves of experience are allowed to come and go.

To accept thoughts and feelings is to simply, gently, effortlessly notice that, in this moment, those thoughts and feelings are already accepted, that they have already been allowed in. They are already here. Accepting is not a time-bound achievement, but a never-ending present-moment reality. You cannot accept—for what you are is acceptance itself

When you feel totally powerless and unable to control the moment, lashing out and demonstrating power can provide some relief, if only temporarily. Attacking another human being is the perfect way to distract yourself from your own deeply uncomfortable feelings—feelings you simply don’t want to allow in yourself. It is often when we feel most helpl