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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal. . . . The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activ...

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to the pause as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed that in the midst of a fight, a bull can find his own particular area of safety in the arena. There he can reclaim his strength and power. ...

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are a...

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha