Dangerous quotes: "Accept life THE WAY IT IS"
"Accept life THE WAY IT IS"
No, definitely not. Sorry, this seems good on the surface but it is very dangerous. If one sees life as crappy this would only mean accepting crappiness. This is a dangerous sentiment. There is no accepting really, there is only choosing. We choose what we accept, and we choose how we see the world. There is a way to see the good in everything and the good of everything, no matter how terrible it may seem at first.
There is more...we have to move beyond just feeling and then responding to what we feel. We have to move beyond merely perceiving, and then believing our perceptions and treating them as if they were the only truth. We have to learn that perception is not passive. It is not accepting what comes our way. What we perceive in this passive way is a consequence of everything that has gone before. It is only perceiving the world through the filter of our experience and thus it is a filter of bias.
We have to learn to actively manage our perception.
To perceive as an art. It is an act of extreme creativity and ethics. To actively perceive in this way is to stretch out humanity to its absolute maximum. We must learn to be able to see good in everything, absolutely everything, only then will we be perceiving the truth. There can be no other substitute. Only by insisting on this act of courage and determination can we move beyond the limitations of our current condition.
We can't love what we don't believe in. And unless we learn to believe by choice, learn how to truly see that everything has Good, we will never be able to move beyond negative reactions to what is. It is acquiring the ability to believe and see beyond the beliefs of who we are up to this point, that moves us beyond our current limitations. Deliberate believing is an act of awareness, of attention and of shifting perspective. It is not a simple act, but a vitally necessary one to learn.
We have to learn how to shift our perspectives, attitudes and awareness to do that. That takes effort, sustained effort, for it is the unlearning of everything we have been taught. Just accepting is lazy and it does absolutely nothing for our awareness. Without enhancing our awareness to truly understand, we will never ever get to compassion. Accepting without fully understanding will only lead to misery as we accept all the crap in our lives never knowing that we can be seeing the good that it actually is. And we will never learn by just accepting that there is Value to be found in absolutely everything.
This has to be learned by Choice, by determined and sustained Choice.
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