As is

you don’t like the way reality is right now, change the future. You see, acceptance isn’t approval, it’s just an acknowledgment of what is (more about this below). If you don’t acknowledge what is, what will you be improving?

You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment. This is important to understand. You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

When I experience my experience, I am allowing it to be what it is; I do this so that something new can show up that wouldn’t show up if I were in opposition to the experience itself.

Now, think of a specific person, place, or thing in your life that you wish were different, that you want to change. Could you welcome whatever feeling is engendered by it as it is? Allow it fully. Could you let go of wanting to change it? Would you? When? Now how do you feel? Is there any more of the feeling of wanting to change the way this

The fact is, once you understand that the way it is, is the way it is, you don’t have to fight circumstances. You can work on changing things instead, and you don’t need to burn energy on resisting.

Instead of wanting things to be different and then being disappointed when they are not, you need to be with your reality as it is, not just for the highs but for the lows too.

deal with the world as it is, not as we want it to be.

world as it is.