Acceptance

Liberation comes from accepting life on life’s terms.  Pain and strife are not optional, suffering is.  Suffering is the inability to accept the inevitable.  Life includes pain, adversity, setbacks, conflict and loss. By accepting life we face those things without trying to escape them, distort them, or pretend they don’t exist.  We learn from them and grow in wisdom and maturity.  Acceptance doesn’t mean liking everything or being passive — it means responding to life with maturity, resilience, and a willingness to adapt.