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What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?


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On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.




Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.



Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.



But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.



As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.

As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.



I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.

I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.



In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.

In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.



I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.



The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved

The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved





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