Re: Conflict between personal growth and acceptance
My expierience is that before you can change anything, you have to accept what it is NOW. If you resist it, you jut make it persist. If you're lazy (just as an example), well, that just is what it is. Okay then. You've experienced what it is to be lazy. Now decide to experience something else, and commit to the new experience, and let go of the old one (i.e., stop worrying about "I'm lazy, oh, no, I need to change, I need to fix this, this is a problem" or whatever).
Once you really commit to "something new" AND let go of (accept and then stop resisting) what "has been" and what IS, opportunities for change will generally arise spontaneously, sometimes with shockingly little effort, sometimes with more effort (depending on what you expect and what you want to experience, though your subconscious beliefs will affect what happens, too).
I think the issue here is with the word "acceptance", which, to many people, implies that you like or approve of something. I would argue that it only means "allowing it to be what it is", and letting go of your resistance to it. It just is what it is, for whatever reason or reasons. There's no need to fight it, push against it, be ashamed of it, etc. It is what it is, simple as that. Just accept that it is what it is. Once you stop resisting, change can start to happen.
May the light surround you, may you be blessed. May the light surround us, may we be blessed. May love and light surround us all, and may we all be healed and blessed. And so it is, and so it shall be, now and ever after.
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