As time has progressed, I've come to really appreciate the presence of everything unfolding and trying to really accept more and more deeply that everything is unfolding in the way that it needs to, or so it appears to me.

And what's interesting about that is that I have spent like the last 10 years I think really focusing on trying to accept what is the circumstances of now, regardless of my preference of them,

and just really engage with reality on that level.

Because that's a way to find a beautiful type of peace is like just accepting not accepting I suppose

because there's some flexibility in the meaning of that word I should say

acknowledging what's happening of that

would be acknowledging what's happening with clarity in your life in any given moment.

There's real peace in that because it keeps you from fighting kind of ghosts as it were

keeps you from fighting with your own perceptions keeps you from creating stories in your mind that make you wish that things were different

than they are or believe that things different that they are, which leads to this delusion,

ultimately, and unhappiness.

So if you can accept or again acknowledge what's happening

without getting too off course by your reaction to what's happening, then you can find a beautiful kind

of piece.

You know, what's interesting is that like as I said I've been

mindfully and intentionally focusing on that for a decade and I find deeper and deeper

layers you know just like any of this stuff. It just keeps

going deeper and deeper. The more you live with these ideas, the more you put into

practice the things that are meaningful to you, these thoughts. the more you

the things that are meaningful to you, these thoughts,

you know, these insights, these tools,

and that you've discovered in your life that are valued

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