Do you realize what acceptance is?

What is acceptance and what does it mean to accept something or someone? Can you really learn to accept people for who they are? In truth what we normally expect is to accept someone if they match what we perceive to be correct and if you don’t resonate with what you feel or see – you dismiss the other party or become less oriented towards friendly encounters. We all like to think that we are the kind of individuals that accepts those for what they are, but in truth most of us are not.

Failure to see the pain

Consequently it is perhaps our own weakness to fail to see the pain that someone is feeling. This type of suffering need not show externally and can be a manifestation of internal psychological symptoms, but what we perceive with our own eyes and by our understanding causes each individual to make decisions based on material life only. The next time you look at an image on canvas, can you capture the artists’ emotions or sense the emotion within the image. Failure to see beyond what we perceive will undoubtedly lead to wrong decision making and strained relationships within all aspects of our lives. Perhaps this is what our ego plans – that by denying anything may be wrong and that we or I have an idea of how things should or should not be. I or we alienate ourselves, not only from society but from the compassion for others. Before you can love, you must love yourself and that means every part of your being. Non acceptance of yourself will be reflected in what you feel for others and deluding yourself into believing that what you are accepting is denying the very fact that you may or may not have a problem within. So the cycle of inner bondage continues and we refrain from learning the lessons that we are supposed to or lessons that allow us to move forward on a healing path from grief, abuse or other depressive states. This reflection can be the cause to judge others and not to accept them for who they are which in turn can cause inner hurt for you in the long-term.

Talking negatively about yourself is like inviting all problems that you do not want to manifest in your life to come and be a part of your existence. Fooling yourself into believing that you are being compassionate, humble and a beacon of truth is a falsification of your own egotistical belief in life. All you are doing is creating the belief and intention that you focus upon. You become your own deceiver and so your own cycle of abuse continues. To see yourself for who you really are is the truth and the enlightenment that we all seek and so we begin to open our horizons further. Sitting in a church day in and day out is deluding yourself to the real truth that your church is within. How can you know God if you do not know yourself?

It is important to see the beauty not only in the world but with others. In truth we are all a divine spark of the one eternal energy of divinity and therefore, in truth, we are no different from one another. The constant is that we are divine and the changing constituent is in the lessons we have to endure. Each lesson is never the same as another person’s – subtle changes can bring around different outcomes. We must never judge and learn to accept the lessons that people may be enduring for what we may perceive on the outside is just the first layer of the Onion, much more is going on within and by learning to accept that these lessons may be a necessary evil – the first step to acceptance of ourselves then perhaps extended to others.

Tramp

Whilst observing a tramp on the street; we automatically feel sorry for them and begin to wonder what atrocities may have befallen them to put them into such a state out with society. However, if you stop and watch with your heart, you may perhaps see beyond what you perceive with your eyes and what society seems to dictate. Perhaps that Tramp is the happiest individual in the world and moreover more advanced spiritually than you – for he is not burdened with materialism. Ask yourself this; Are you truly happy? Not accepting emotions, lessons and situations that develop out of free will, forever burdens us with the guilt of life and slowly and surely the cancer develops. How harmonious could we be if we accepted those around us and learn from our own lessons? Typically, we would experience less rage, anger and in conclusion – we may make this a better world in which to live. The Great prophet Jesus once said “Love your brother as I have loved you,” this means unconditionally and without boundaries as laid down by society. See the beauty in people and not what you think they should be.