Acceptance

Eternity and its meaning are topics that have always preoccupied you. From where you stand, your life in eternity sometimes seems so small, so insignificant to you. We know that many of you have lost “the ground beneath your feet” in certain periods in your life and have fallen into “dark holes” only known to you. We call that surrendering, surrendering to being broken apart so that you can be put back together again, this time as someone entirely new, someone with knowledge and skills entirely foreign to that part which broke into pieces. And then you move on to some new breaking apart.
And where is the meaning in that, many of you are now wondering. The meaning is in existence, in existing eternally because the only things that are certain are existence itself, and that you exist in eternity.
If you were to live life without any breaking points, you’d live all of eternity in one life; it would seem so long and so exhausting to you. After a while, “time” would lose all meaning to you, and you’d, at one point, begin to feel you were moving backwards, not forwards. That’s why there are these breaking points, to snap you out of your everyday routine, to shatter you so that you can be put back together again, with new knowledge and new experiences, each time wiser and happier, until the next time you break, when your soul has decided it’s time to fall apart again.
And reject fear, reject that emotion which you can only be a slave to. Allow it to give you a push at a certain point in time, but don’t surrender to it. Reject it by interrupting all activities with some sudden movement, a change of direction, a change of action, with dance, a loud scream, going out into nature, reading a book, meditating or watching a movie. Do anything, just don’t allow yourself to fall into a state of fear.
That’s what you can all certainly do, sense oncoming fear and intercept it, not give into it. Fear fogs up your mind and tears down your defenses, it brings you to an unexplored territory and leaves you there alone. There’s perhaps nowhere where you are as lonely as in the emotion of fear. So don’t give into it, you’re stronger than it is, far stronger, if only you want to be.
When you accept your existence, you’ve accepted your life too. And that’s what is so difficult for most of you, to accept your life. Begin, therefore, with the little things.
Begin by keeping your own “diary of acceptance”. Try to accept at least four things every day and write them down in your diary. Accept them by thinking about them, by visualizing them, by becoming what you’re accepting at that moment. Start with little things, then move on to big ones. Start with objects which are dear to you or which you often use, then accept people, events, parts of yourself.
That puts you in the present moment and makes it possible for you to stop wandering around the past and the future, and instead puts you in the only place which exists right now—your life in this very moment. That way, when you accept life and yourself in it, the door to its understanding will open for you; you’ll be closer to understanding your life than you’ve ever been. Try and play the game of acceptance, don’t give up on yourself and your life.