Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.
~ Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
When I came across these words, they stopped me in my tracks. After my stroke, I understood them in a way I never had before. Change happened in an instant —brain injured, a life interrupted. But acceptance, that is slower and harder.
Buddha is often quoted as saying, “Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful.” And that resistance is where I found myself caught — fighting what had happened, wishing for what I couldn’t return to.
Michael J. Fox puts it plainly: “Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.”
So it is. Change arrives without permission. Acceptance is a choice, day after day.
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It’s wonderful that you reach out to the rest of us with your choice sources ~ it enriches our lives wonderfully, and the knowledge of what you overcome to do it only adds to that enrichment. Thank you.
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What a lovely comment Ana. Thankyou so much.💜
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Yes, acceptance makes us free from regrets or life’s circumstances that change our lives forever
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Things ARE. Yet part of me wants them to be other. It’s the wanting part that enables suffering for me. Perhaps the frustration that arises when my Egoic nature realizes it has little control here, and is along for the ride. Great post.
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Ahh, yes the wanting ….
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