Saturday, September 8, 2018
Day 67 Acceptance is a gift
I have been reading the work of Albert Ellis, a psychotherapist, who works in Behavioral Rational Emotive Therapy. It's kinda like Zen, kinda like Buddhism, but still a little different. I have been reading and thinking of concept USA or universal self acceptance. There is another concept called UOA or universal other acceptance, but since I have a little less than 300 days to go, I am saving it for another time. He discusses that because we live, we are: good, bad or indifferent. I was thinking reading this of my dog. He just is. He does not care if he bothers me when I am tired, if he needs to go out or eat. He just barks or wines. He guards the door and barks to help protect the family. He sleeps a lot since he is old. He is and does not seem to feel any regret about what he does. If he bites me because I am bothering him (trying to help him take a pill etc...), he moves on in a few minutes. We as animals may be able to learn from this. We are. That is the beauty in life. We exist for a short time and what we do here is just what we do here. Some people change the world; others just survive. Acknowledging this beauty of being may cause happiness for us and acceptance in just sitting back and taking it all in. Today, I am trying to do just that.
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