Acceptance

When evaluating your internal flame, it is much more fun and easier to direct your attention toward its brilliant attributes instead of the lackluster areas with flaws. We struggle to face the unattractive parts of our flame that should be adjusted because it requires us to accept that something must be changed, which hurts our ego and pride.

Acceptance is confrontational but necessary. It is the art of detaching from individual bias and seeing circumstances at core value—for what is the truth. The reason acceptance is so hard is because introspection is never easy. To look at your flaws, your shortcomings, your vices, and to confront and challenge your own actions.

Sometimes we believe that if we ignore something and store it away in a distant section of the mind it will be forgotten. Since we all do it, we know this is not the case. The first step to fighting the darkness in your mind is to accept its existence, to acknowledge its presence. Not to reject its words, to pretend it is not there—because this will only cause more damage.

"What reality are you refusing to accept, and how is that refusal shaping your experience?"

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