Up: [[Accept Reality]] > [!orbit] Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche > Facing the bluntness of reality is the highest form of sanity and enlightened vision… Devotion proceeds through various stages of unmaking until we reach the point of seeing the world directly and simply without imposing our fabrications… > [!Orbit] Joan Didion > I’m not telling you to make the world better I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. > [!Orbit] Steven Hayes, one of the founders of ACT, says… > Acceptance is not passive tolerance or resignation but an intentional behaviour that alters the function of inner experience from events to be avoided to a focus of interest, curiosity, and observation. > [!Orbit] [[Marie-Louise von Franz]] > It’s easy to be a naive idealist. It’s easy to be a cynical realist. It’s quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame. > [!Orbit] [[John O’Donohue]] in *Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom* > The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life. In a vital sense, perception is reality. (p.105)