Mark Nepo

And through that, I was turned inside out and upside down and through no wisdom on my part.

I was jettisoned in to learning a different way to be in the world and learning how acceptance.

We often misconstrue it.

It doesn't mean resignation.

It doesn't mean giving up.

It doesn't mean just obeying whatever someone asks of us acceptance.

comes out of surrender.

And I think surrender I've learned is cooperating with truth.

So instead of fighting life, we stay in relationship with it.

We work with it.

And that's on a way in the ancient, one of all the spiritual traditions speak about this in different ways, but the Taoist tradition, the ancient Chinese tradition,

Tao simply means the way they don't even try to name it.

But the metaphor for it, which I so love is that life is like an invisible river and every soul is a fish in that river.

And so the goal of every soul, every fish is to find the current so you can swim with it.

And that's the proper use of our will.

That's the work of acceptance.

And not fighting, not insisting on what I want, but seeing what am I being asked here to learn and contribute that will both feed my life and life in the stream of life.

Well, it requires that.

So let's also back up here to say that, and again, this is

part of the journey of every soul that comes into being is there's an age-old argument, if you will.