Acceptance daily
I spent too much time in my life to dwell on the faults of others. It is a form of subtle and most perverted of our vanity that we can stay comfortably in ignorance of our own faults. Too often we hear: "Without him (or her) as I would have been happy! "
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Our first problem is to accept our present state as it is, ourselves as we are and those around us as they are. We adopt as a realistic humility without which no real progress can not even begin. And this is the starting point, unflattering, that we must consciously return. This is an exercise in acceptance that the practice may be useful to us every day of our lives. Only insofar as we can avoid, with all our might, to transform these findings into realistic excuses to justify smoking apathy or defeatism, they can be the basis for development of our welfare emotional and, therefore, spiritual progress can be accomplished.
Letter 1966
Grapevine - March 1962
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