Poetry at Phila. Front Page News, "Enlightenment Chapel, Inc."

Poetry at Phila. Front Page News, "Enlightenment Chapel, Inc."

Acceptance is important to living a life of abundance. This is the
way to inner peace.

The world teaches you that you must always be stressed out and
worried about things in your life that you can't control. The "ego"
part of you loves getting you all worked up over what's not fair.

Your ego tries to convince you that it's important to prove yourself
over and over. It tells you that you're not worth anything unless
you're constantly striving to validate that worth.

This isn't true. One of the first aspects of acceptance is to know
that you are fine just the way you are right at this moment in time.
You have no need to prove anything.

By living your life with an attitude of acceptance, you begin to
remove fear and doubt. These emotions impede your inner peace. Your
higher self has no need for them, as you already know deep inside
that abundance is yours. Allow yourself to tap into this knowledge.

Now, this isn't to say that you just accept things as they are and
then become lazy. It's a way of thinking. A thought process. A
knowing.

As you work toward making your physical goals reality, you exist in a
state of mind of acceptance. This state of mind frees you from inner
anxiety and anguish when things don't go as planned.
You understand that some things you can change and influence and some
you cannot. There is a feeling of inner peace that will come to you
when you accept that which you can't change. It is what it is.

When you live your life from this perspective, it opens you up more
to that which you can influence. When this happens, you're able to be
more productive than you ever could or would be when you listen to
your ego and make yourself miserable over the unfairness of life.

Another aspect of acceptance that will lead you to abundance and
inner peace is that it helps you eliminate judgement from your life.
There's no need for you to pre-judge. This is one of the ego's best
weapons against your inner peace.

In this world, we are brought up with many stereotypes and thoughts
on what others should or shouldn't be doing. Pre-judging others is
prevalent. Acceptance includes understanding that it's not your place
to decide what is right for others.

Notice how you feel inside when you pre-judge or judge another
person. Are you filled with inner peace and contentment? Most likely,
you feel inner stress. Your body tightens up. Your ego is loving it!

But, your higher self knows that an acceptance state of mind is much
healthier for your spirituality.

The next time you start this judgement process, be aware of it.
Replace it with the thought that you don't want this poison inside of
you.

See that other person as an extension of yourself. Understand that
you are both of the same spiritual energy. Know that you are no
better than this other soul; they are not beneath you to be judged by
you.

Spiritually mature people have learned how to like themselves and
value the differences in themselves. They have an understanding that
they were created in a unique way. They don't wish for what they
don't have, and are grateful for the things that they do have.

Spiritually mature people accept who they are. They realize that they
wouldn't be on this earth if their parents didn't bring them into the
world, and they accept their individual features that make them who
they are.

Acceptance can be summed up with the old Zen saying,
"If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not
understand, things are just as they are."

Change your life!