Hello,
And thanks for joining this talk.
I wanted to talk today about acceptance,
And I found myself kind of having various conversations about it on different platforms this morning,
And it's something which really kind of popped up for me.
I've got a friend of mine who was talking to me about,
I don't know if I can call it the seasons,
But kind of the blocks that we live in,
Like chunks of time.
She was saying to me,
Oh yeah,
Well,
You know,
What did that first quarter,
What was the theme for that quarter?
I was like,
Huh?
What are you talking about?
I was like,
Okay.
And the more I've looked into it and really paid attention,
There really is a theme which tracks.
And the theme from the beginning of the year,
Well,
I'll start at post-Christmas,
Was truth.
And if you look at,
And this is me thinking out loud,
Listening to myself,
If you look at,
If I look at my talks,
And in the kind of chronological order that they sit in,
They probably will mirror the theme at the time.
And so December for me was very much about truth,
And that's when the Throat Chakra course came out.
And then that flowed into curiosity.
Curiosity.
And curiosity has naturally now flown into acceptance,
Well,
Naturally flowed into acceptance.
And it's quite interesting that acceptance has come up,
Because it's something which I have,
Yeah,
I say a fair amount of time about reading the tea leaves.
And I've been giving some inside time and lives at the moment about acceptance.
Again,
Completely unrelated to any kind of deliberate theme.
It's just felt like I want to talk more about acceptance right now.
And now I'm starting to see the pattern.
And essentially,
I was just talking to my sister about these two friends of mine.
And a few years ago,
I was,
There's quite a lot of disagreement happening with friend number one.
And we kind of stopped talking.
And haven't spoken for a while,
Actually,
A few years.
And then I look at,
I've got friend number two.
And friend number two,
There is friction at times.
But,
You know,
For those of you who've,
Well,
I presume that,
You know,
If you've gotten to this talk,
You've listened to others and listened to my meditations,
You know,
I talk about what Eckhart Tolle talks about in terms of,
He talks about the situations and choices.
And for me,
I've said this a lot,
This quote changed everything for me.
It came up at a moment in a time in my life when I really needed to understand acceptance.
And truly,
On the back end of this quote is,
Has been all of this,
That's,
You know,
A clear milestone and marker.
But the,
You know,
What he says is,
And to a degree,
I paraphrase,
If you find your here and now intolerable,
And it makes you unhappy,
You have three options.
Remove yourself from the situation,
Change it,
Or accept it totally.
If you want to take responsibility for your life,
You must choose one of those three options and you must choose now.
Then accept the consequences,
No excuses,
No negativity,
No psychic pollution.
That,
And I was giving an inside time alive once and I,
Well,
It was that meditation.
And somebody said,
Oh,
The serenity prayer.
I was like,
And yeah.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know difference.
The wisdom to know the difference.
And so,
If I look at those two situations,
Friend number one and friend number two,
Friend number one,
Could I change the person?
No.
Did I want to leave the situation?
And this is the thing,
Even before I finished that sentence,
I said,
Yes.
So the answer was obvious.
And that's what subconsciously and innately happened.
And now with friend number two,
And,
You know,
Being more conscious of those choices,
You know,
It's kind of in my mindset and I kind of go through that in situations like this.
No.
Can I change the person?
No.
Do I want to leave the relationship with this person?
No.
Therefore,
I just have to accept it.
And then the minute I accept that,
And the minute I accepted that,
Just an element of peace came across me.
And for me,
That's really what acceptance gives,
And much like Eckhart Tolle talks about it,
He's like,
Is that in making that choice,
You know,
And then following through with it completely wholeheartedly,
No excuses,
No negativity,
No psychic pollution,
I believe one finds peace.
And so the theme for this quarter is acceptance.
And just really sticking to those three choices.
Can I change it?
Or can I change the person?
Can I change the situation?
If no,
Then am I willing to,
Or am I even able to leave it?
And again,
If no,
All I can do is accept it.
Because anything else is just continued pain.
And continued unnecessary pain.
So,
That is my thought for today.
