ACCEPTANCE IS NON-RESISTANCE

It is probably the most courageous thing you will ever do to accept that you are just yourself. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditations."

Extending that thought: That says to me that the most courageous thing we can do is to accept ourselves just as we are when others are not accepting us just as we are. True acceptance is non-resistance, and that does take courage.

It takes courage to feel another's resistance/judgment and not explain, justify, excuse ourselves...or, the most common response, to not resist/judge right back.

The problem is not in another's resistance, the problem is in our own ego's interpretation of that resistance. It takes courage to turn a deaf ear to our own ego's siren call. For it is ego, our own ego, that is resisting what it is hearing, what it is interpreting as it hears it, and promptly puts another's name on it.

Ego deflation at depth, I'm guessing, is quite simply the realization of God. That realization is what needs tending...that which we must discipline ourselves to return to always...for our reasoning mind, our ego, will break in, will demand our attention. Our courageous act is to let it! Let it in so we can let it go...let it flow right on through us. A truism: What we resist persists.

The ego's call is so attractive because it always has someone else as its source for blaming and shaming. No. To go down that road is to detour from our only acceptable goal; i.e., our own still more spiritual growth. That is ours and ours alone to align with the realization that God is...and that is enough.

We develop a consciousness of enough, and we know peace.

Thank you.