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Today's
Meditation:
I am what I am, I've done what I've done, I've made the
mistakes that I've made. You are who you are, and
you've done what you've done. At this moment in
time, there's no changing that at all, and that's
fine. We have the option of accepting things and
people as they are, or not.
Once we accept something, then we can work to change
it. Without acceptance, though, we're simply denying
that something is or isn't--an alcoholic must accept his
or her alcoholism as a fact before he or she can do
anything about the problem; a drug addict who doesn't
accept the addiction as fact can do nothing to fight the
addiction.
Acceptance is one of the most important tools that we have
in our lives. Even if we're not looking to change
something, acceptance can give us peace of mind and allow
us to live our lives without trying to control people or
situations. It allows us to live without prejudices
and biases, and allows us to learn from others' ways of
doing things rather than trying to get them to conform to
the ways that we think things should be, or how people
should act. If there is something in our lives that
needs to be changed, be it an addiction, a shortcoming at
work or at school, problems in a relationship, or anything
else, we must accept the existence of the problem before
we can do anything about it at all.
Acceptance is an incredible tool in our lives, and it's
well worth keeping it in good working shape as much as we
can, by using it as much as we should.
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