"A man will enjoy today what exasperated him yesterday.” ~ Jean Metzinger
for so many years, people in trainings hate coming to trainings, even though they signed up for trainings to encounter what prohibits their prospering. what prohibits prospering is exactly that: RESISTANCE!
whatever is resisted persists. once there is a surrender, there is an opening.
when i moved to this Buck Hollow house in Vermont, i really didn’t want purple or yellow flowers all over these acres, but there they were!
previous owners had installed irises all over everywhere... they had been growing purple african violets all through the house. i saw them when i came to look at the place. she had rolling units... with shelves of african violets, that she moved from window to window to get more or less light.
outside, yellow dandelions were everywhere... but, i only wanted red or orange flowers. i wanted the irises to be gone. i wanted to mow away dandelions. i couldn’t, they just kept on coming. i got so tired of having to look at them. i put red flowers all over, but i could still see what i didn’t want. there was no stopping them.“what’s up with that?” i thought.
the answer was purple and yellow were all over Vermont!!! most of the Vermont wild flowers were those colors. “get used to it.expect it.embrace it.” i told myself, “you don’t have enough time or scissors to trim the whole state or even these 25 acres, so get off it.”
i proceeded to invent the idea that purple and yellow were welcome, even great colors to like. i looked up what they stood for: yellow and purple... intellect and royalty! “that’s not bad stuff,” i said.
so i shifted... my thinking. perspectives changed. i bought some new scarves...new blouses... i began to see red went perfectly fine with purple and yellow, and even though they were not my most favorite first choices, purple and yellow were right fine colors to occur, since i couldn’t get rid of them anyway.
it’s called acceptance. it started with the flowers but it has extended to everything.
acceptance... a really great road to a peaceful and fine life... highly recommended by Buddhists and me!
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