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.

And by that I mean trying to be present

with 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 with clarity in your life any given moment

There's real peace in that because in your own life, any given moment.

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

keeps you from fighting with your own perceptions, 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, in 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

...