Last night we melted into our cushy chocolate brown recliners with a book of choice before bedtime. The bright copper-colored cover of Eckhart Tolle's New Earth filled my field of vision. I allowed chance to lead me ... and opened to page 296, "Acceptance."
Here, I found bits of brilliance all human beings can connect with, no matter our changeable circumstances, variable climates and seasons, progressive stages of life:
"Whatever you cannot enjoy doing, you can at least accept that this is what you have to do. Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly."
(...for in the greater scheme of intention, life, and living...this is what has become present to me)
(...perhaps precisely in such situations it suits us to recall reference to "not my will, but Thy will be done." These words remind us that there are times when it behooves us to lend our support willingly to a wisdom superseding our own ... A WISDOM far greater, more encompassing than our own current myopia.)
(...and perhaps Tolle's earlier phrase "have to do" connotes not so much that there is something we must do, as it signals we have been given this to do ...we have it so that we may do something good with it)
Tolle proceeds to note that he had already addressed the importance of "inner acceptance
of what happens, and acceptance of what you have to do is just another aspect of it." He goes on to say that, "Performing an action in the state of acceptance means you are at peace while you do it. That peace is a subtle energy vibration which then flows into what you do. On the surface, acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it is active and creative because it brings something entirely new into this world."
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