from war to acceptance
On pivoting from being at war with yourself, and the world, to accepting it as it is.
from war to acceptance
The gap between knowing what you want and going after it is where fear thrives. You don't need enough courage for the entire journey. You only need courage for the next step.
The way out of our cage begins with accepting absolutely everything about ourselves and our lives, by embracing with wakefulness and care our moment-to-moment experience. By accepting absolutely everything, what I mean is that we are aware of what is happening within our body and mind in any given moment, without trying to control or judge or pull
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Acceptance of ourselves and of our life journey is far more powerful than self-judgment in terms of our transformation.
Roxanne Howe-Murphy • Underneath Your Personality: Discover Greater Well-Being Through Deep Living With the Enneagram
Once, we made sense of the world with sweeping narratives that provided a comforting sense of mastery. Now, with those narratives shattered beyond repair by a reality too complex for us to fathom, a new kind of coping mechanism is emerging—one where we make peace with the limits of our agency rather than pretending to overcome them. The task is no... See more