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Accept the Negative
Sometimes it is just good to be angry, or cry without having to stop because you are suppose not to? Yes. We burn the bridge before we even cross it. We want peace, but won’t allow ourselves to be at peace with what disturbs us. When you seek to deny anything about you, you make…
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Accept Diversity
We won’t see unity in the world until diversity is accepted. We won’t have unity by blurring and denying duality. We won’t create enlightenment by declaring we know better than our senses, like we were some self stamped coin that we are trading in for a better bill. We are one because we are part…
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Accept Reverence
Reverence has a complimentary attitude, irreverence. Our drive to reverence is not necessarily a drive to religiosity, and many people gloat at the idea that they are irreverent thinkers, that they hold nothing sacred. To paraphrase Jesus, “They know not what they do.” Irreverence has its place when it stems from innate human reverence. When…
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Accept It’s Possible
I have been able to affect and help what most other people have considered “unreachable” people. Those who were supposedly too stubborn, hateful, or even mentally ill to hear reason from the general point of view. Most people reject these people. But the biggest portion of these people are who they are, and where they…
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Accept Connection
Those who will accept no connection will show power with nothing. Those who will embrace no definitions will recognize the worth of no other thing and fail to recognize what any other person has to offer. “Know yourself.” Yes, and in knowing yourself you will know others as well, and possibly better than they know…
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Accept Duality
Now to the heart of the matter, shall we? Our range or capacity for good or growth or evolution, whatever you prefer, is entirely dependant on our ability to accept duality. Your ability to grow is entirely dependant on accepting what you are not. So yes, your defeat or failure is entirely necessary for your…
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Accept the Presence of Night and Day
In the beginning was darkness, and in the fullness of time there came to be both a night and day, and this was necessary, good for the well-being of all life. These elements of natural order haven’t changed and will not, but when humans come to accept the presence of the dark as well as…
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Accept Your Failings
Anyone familiar with Zen sand gardens? To use the Zen sand garden metaphor, the rocks could be said to represent those upsetting weaknesses in our personal character. They are rough, heavy and virtually immovable, and though the sand between is more spacious, even and peaceful, there is no escaping the imprint the rocks make in…
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Accept Dreams as Reality
What happens when you create an intersection in this hallway of human experience? A way through? A way out! Does anyone usually realize they can go some other way than these two? Mystic or rationalist? No. “What else is true?” Our nature manifests in a naturally occurring way. In the end, nothing is true, everything…