How to Accept Reality Without Giving Up Your Dreams
Acceptance is not resignation
Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation.
“It is what it is. It’ll become what you make of it.” — old proverb
Whatever we resist, persists.
Most people don’t want to be where they are — they are not comfortable in their own lives.
Whatever we fight, we make it stronger. What seems nasty or painful can be a burden or a source of growth. Being at war with reality is a choice — you became a casualty or make peace with life.
Acceptance is giving up the fight, not your dreams.
Acceptance Is Anything but Passive
“A weed is but an unloved flower.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Many people confuse acceptance with resignation. They believe it means lowering their bar, stop caring or just quitting. On the contrary, you can’t improve something you don’t fully accept first.
Acceptance is experiencing life fully, without resistance. You stop trying to change what you can’t control. And, instead, focus on what you can: yourself.
As Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, “For, after all, the be…
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