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Acceptance Joseph Naft has great insights on "The Stages of Love"

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Posted 08 October 2007 - 11:44 AM

+ In Weekly Inner Work at Inner Frontier Joseph Naft offers important wisdom on "Acceptance" as he expands his ideas on The Stages of Love. Excerpts: "Dropping, or at least putting in abeyance, our criticisms and judgments is an act of will, a spiritual practice that requires repetition and intention. Our thoughts and emotions may continue their habitual patterns of inwardly criticizing people when they do not fit our mold for them." | "One personal benefit of practicing acceptance is the freedom it gives. Acceptance softens our egoism, whether self-centered or group-centered. It also widens our humility, a quality necessary for conscious connection with the Sacred." | "Notice your inner criticisms and judgments of others. Notice whether you buy into these opinions. Practice letting them go. Though critical thoughts continue to arise on their own, see them now as masking the deeper truth of sameness and person-to-person connection."

Go to http://www.innerfron..._Acceptance.htm

This post has been edited by mystictrek: 08 October 2007 - 11:47 AM

love,
john
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"You do not need to do anything; you do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You do not even need to listen; just wait. You do not even need to wait; just become still, quiet and solitary and the world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet." -- Franz Kafka
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