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“I've accepted something painful and I feel strangely at peace.”
That peace is real. It comes from the inside, not from the situation improving. When you stop fighting what is outside your control, the energy that was locked in that fight becomes available again.
Your Practice
Write down what you accepted and what you reclaimed by accepting it. Keep it. The next time you're grinding against something you can't change, pull this out and ask: what's it costing me to keep fighting this?
The Architects
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
Aristotle, Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book V, sec. 18 (R.D. Hicks translation)