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You know, I keep finding in my life that the deepest truths are the ones that we regularly forget.

And one of these is radical acceptance.

Really of exactly what we're experiencing in the here and now is the gateway to everything we long for.

For love, wisdom, peace, freedom, radical acceptance.

And without being aware of it, in many moments, what's really happening is that we're at odds with reality.

We're turned against ourselves or judging another or feeling resentful or just feeling oppressed by life.

And so one of the real big shifts for me over the decades and this hasn't been sudden is that while all those ways of resisting life come up, you know, judging myself, judging others, a lag time has decreased.

I'm in that kind of resisting transfer shorter amounts of time.

And then there's this recognition, oh, okay, I'm fighting reality.

And then there's a kind of relaxing open and the two questions that really help me are, so what is actually happening right now?

And can I be with this with kindness?

Radical acceptance.

And if it comes increasingly clear that the boundary to what we accept is the boundary to our freedom.

So as many of you know, this was the center teaching in my first book radical acceptance.

And I the book is a training and really how to embrace our inner life and all of life.

How to love ourselves into healing. I like that phrase.

Next fall, the 20th anniversary edition of radical acceptance is coming out. I've been working on it. There's a new chapter and a new introduction and an introduction to rain.

And as I've been working on this, I've reflected a lot on the themes and they just feel so alive and central.

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