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If you want to make any improvement in your life, you must first accept the way it is now. Don’t try to judge it and make it wrong. Don’t try to glorify it or distort the truth to make it more attractive. Just accept the way things are.
Scott H Young.When reality confronts our notion of what reality SHOULD be, reality always wins. We don't like this (that is, we have trouble ACCEPTING this), so we either struggle with reality and become upset, or turn away from it and become unconscious. If you find yourself upset or unconscious - or alternating between the two - about something, you might ask yourself, 'What am I not accepting about this?
John RogerAcceptance of reality as it is requires an act of CHOICE. It is like coming to a fork in the road. You have to turn your mind towards the acceptance road and away form the rejecting reality road.
You have to make and inner COMMITTMENT to accept. The COMMITTMENT to accept does not itself equal acceptance . It just turns you toward the path. But it si the first step.
You have to turn your mind and commit to acceptance OVER AND OVER AND OVER Again. Sometimes, you have to make the committment many times in the space of a few minuites.
B. THE CHALLENGE TO FACE THE REALITY OF OUR LIVES
One thing seems certain, a sensible spirituality must be based on reality ... the facts of life as they really are not as we sometimes pretend them to be. We must accept the truth about life before we can handle it sensibly. Dealing with life demands that we first know what it is, that we recognize both what we are and what the world is like.
As Augustine remarked: my knowledge captures the truth of my situation only when my judgments, my insights about the reality of my world correspond with the facts. (On True Religion, 36.66). Certainly that most perfect form of knowledge, wisdom, cannot rest on an erroneous idea about what the world is truly like, what I am truly like. If I claim to know that I am all-perfect, that indeed I am God, I cannot be called wise. Indeed, I am insane. Like those poor souls who laugh at a world their terrible fever has created, I am not in a happy state, a state which (if we recognized its true character) would cause horror, not ecstasy. The fact of the matter is that (again as Augustine observed):
Such is the overwhelming power of unconquerable truth, that one would rather keep one's wits and cry than lose one's wits and laugh.
17These are a shadow of the things that were to come;
the reality, however, is found in Christ.
Colossians 2:17 (New International Version)
walk on your toes
and look wide-eyed into life
believing there will always be
goodnesses to be experienced
beautiful moments to be captured
faithful friends to be discovered.
at times you will feel
as if you are lost in a dream
but reality has a way of
putting your feet back on the ground
and so you must face it once again
the sometimes cold and cluttered reality
seemingly wrapped in meaningless noise
and empty promises
but in essence reality is warm
it is silent, it is simple
in essence, reality is hope
-imago2007
