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There's a cartoon from years ago, and there's a large shark looking very discouraged,

talking to his buddy.

And what he's saying is that the pressure to be great is just too much.

I would rather be known as the just okay white shark.

And, you know, I often talk about our feelings of failure, the challenges of

accepting ourselves and each other just as we are, radical acceptance. And this is a special

season for me, as I think many are aware, the 20th anniversary edition of radical

acceptance is coming out. It's actually out now, I think. And over the last year or so, I've

been adding material so that really addresses our current world and finding in ever deepening ways

how the basic practices are so relevant, so crucial.

So I wanted to make this all available in an anniversary edition.

So for this class, I have chosen a recent and kind of classic talk on

radical acceptance, and I hope you'll enjoy it. And I wanted to say a few more words before starting.

I recently heard a story about a woman with a brain injury who would sometimes fall to the floor and people around

her would rush to immediately get her back on her feet before she was quite ready. And she shared

that she said, I think people rush to help me up because they're so uncomfortable with seeing an

adult lying on the floor. But what I really

need is for someone to get down on the ground with me. I was so moved by that. It's so powerful

made me think about how often when we're with somebody who's having a hard time,

we so quickly jumped to trying to fix and we know it for ourselves when we're struggling,

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