Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance.
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
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There is only one world, the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.” We think we live in a set of circumstances, but we don’t. We live in our conversation about the world and our conversation about the circumstances.
To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself. Dennis Merzel Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
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| “Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns…We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small.” |
| ― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha |
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“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” – Vince Lombardi