the major aspects of the path

[happy soul]

love, awareness, acceptance, letting go


I've found these four principles (or practices if you want to put it that way) to be the major components of the spiritual path.

Love, of course, is all-important. But really I believe you could say that acceptance is the biggest of these. I just don't see how, without acceptance, we can possibly heal or grow.

It may sound dismal, but if we don't accept the painful aspects of life and experiences we have, we'll be stuck until we do.

People used to mistreat me, and I couldn't accept it, I couldn't 'come to terms' with it, so it consumed me.

We simply must practice acceptance. There's no other way out.

[iamthat]

Indeed. And if we find acceptance difficult, then we also have to accept our non-acceptance!

Peace

[happy soul]

Originally Posted by iamthat

Indeed. And if we find acceptance difficult, then we also have to accept our non-acceptance!

Peace

Thanks, I fully agree. And that's definitely a message to me because I needed to hear it.

[Miss Hepburn]

Acceptance and letting go, yup...I boil those 2 down to allowing.


Allowing, acceptance, letting go...I also think of:
That is the way I lay on the beach and absorb the warmth of the sun.