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Anthony D'Amelho, many of you might know as a Wilman Jesuit priest and writer, wise man.

And in one of his books, he describes a key moment of waking up for him, a moment I call

radical acceptance.

He says he had spent decades and decades really depressed and anxious and selfish and the

worst part of it.

And he felt despairing about how to change and the worst part of it was that even his

friends kept telling him that he really needed to become less self-absorbed.

And so finally one day his world was kind of stopped when one of his friends said, don't

change.

Don't change it.

I love you just the way you are.

Don't change.

I love you just as you are.

And he said that the words are like pure grace.

They just flooded through them.

And he said paradoxically, it was only when he got permission not to change to be just

as he was that he actually transformed in a profound way.

And to me that describes one of the deep principles of healing and transformation, which is it's

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