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
God, grant me the serenity to
Accept the things I cannot change
Courage to change the things I can
And wisdom to know the difference
the road to recovery is paved with self-acceptance.
T.B.D. • The Right Way to Pull a Weed
It is one of those simple but beautiful paradoxes of life: When a person feels that he is truly accepted by another, as he is, then he is freed to move from there and to begin to think about how he wants to change, how we wants to grow, how he can become different, how he might become more of what he is capable of being.
Thomas Gordon • Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children
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
Games of Chance – ZORA ZINE
Acceptance of ourselves and of our life journey is far more powerful than self-judgment in terms of our transformation.