Daily Acceptance

As Bill Sees It page 44

Daily Acceptance

TOO much of my life has been spent in dwelling upon the faults of others. This is a most subtle and perverse form of self-satisfaction, which permits us to remain comfortably unaware of our own defects. Too often we are heard to say. "If it weren't for him (or her), how happy I would be."
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OUR very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people around us as they are. This is to adopt a realistic humility without which no genuine advance can even begin. Again and again, we shall need to return to that unflattering point of departure. This is an exercise in acceptance that we can profitably practice every day of our lives.

PROVIDED we strenuously avoid turning these realistic surveys of the facts of life unto unrealistic alibis for apathy or defeatism, they can be the sure foundation upon which increased emotional health and therefore spiritual progress can be built.

#1 Letrer, 1966
#2 Grapevine, March 1962
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