A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

 

Absence
Absolute
Absorption
Acceptance
Acting Self
Action
Activity
Aggression
Aim of Inquiry
Alienation
Allowing
Aloneness
Anger
Anguish
Animal Soul
Annihilation
Anxiety
Appearance
Archetype
Arising
Aspects
Atman
Attachment
Authenticity
Autopoiesis
Autonomy
Awakening
Awareness

Acceptance

Acceptance will not be the personality accepting. Acceptance will be Essence coming; it will be like a benediction, a blessing, a gentle rain. The personality cannot accept. It can surrender to the truth of the moment -- which is the same as the stopping of rejection -- surrender and allow what is there to be there without preference and judgment. (Diamond Heart Book 2, pg 93)

 

 

First, you realize that you are rejecting and pushing, you see it and you don't identify with it, then there is understanding of the rejection and cessation of the rejection. And finally a certain essential state flows that is called "acceptance". It feels like a blessing, a melting, a kind of vulnerability, a kind of non-defensiveness. (Diamond Heart Book 3, pg 176-177)

 

 

Acceptance and essence

Essence is acceptance, not as approval but as a healing agent. It is the spontaneous inner charge and discharge; the cleansing without rejection. When the personality stops because it sees that its activity is painful, it stops through understanding, and not through rejection. In fact, it is not that the personality stops and acceptance comes; they happen at the same time. The letting go of the personality and the washing of Essence are the same process. Your personality and Essence have the same understanding at that moment so they operate together; personality is not rejected but understood with compassion and love. Acceptance is actually an aspect of Essence; it is not an activity. (Diamond Heart Book 2, pg 94)

 

 

Acceptance and rejection

Only when we allow ourselves to see the movement of rejection and allow our understanding to unfold completely does the simultaneous cessation of the movement of rejection and the flow of acceptance happen. Then we regain our confidence and trust in our organism, which is actually a trust in the truth. Seeing and understanding the truth allows this development, because when you completely see the workings of rejection you will feel the suffering and see that our usual way of life doesn't work, it causes suffering. (Diamond Heart Book 2, pg 95)