ACCEPT YOURSELF AS YOU ARE:

[Pravin Kumar]

Accept Yourself As You Are:

You can only act in ways that arise from within you. A trigger activates your Conditioned Mind and you act accordingly. Accept yourself as you are and as the mind settles what’s within you will change...

Unity with others is dependent on learning to love yourself unconditionally because if you judge yourself there is no way we won't judge others. In your judgements, your unity with others will be fleeting at best. Unity with humanity doesn't start with humanity, it starts with you because if you can't accept yourself as you are there's no way we will be able to accept anyone else as they are. You may be able to accept them for a time if they’re as you want them to be, but they remaining that way will also be fleeting at best. This ability to accept yourself will only occur when you know our own mind, and only in the sense of how it’s the cause of not accepting yourself.

Think of this when you act in a way that's not in your best interest, it originates from you. You unconsciously act in a way that isn't beneficial to your own well being; this is done all the time. These acts come from your own mind, but its not the way that you act that causes the problem, it's wanting the way that you act to be different, which is impossible because it has already has been done. So accept yourself as you are and the next time something triggers your Conditioned Mind to act in a way that's not in your best interest, you may be able to pause and not do it. If you do act in a way that's not beneficial, accept it. When the mind settles enough through this acceptance, what’s within you will change with the understanding you are perfect just as you are because it’s what's there; just know there may be room for improvement, but accept yourself as you are...

MICHAEL CUPO