Accept it like You Chose It

 Accept what happens as if you have chosen it .

Eckhart Tolle/Wayne Dyer

I have heard that piece of wisdom from many but the two echoing voices that stick in my head are Wayne Dyer's and Eckhart Tolle's.  

New age?  

No...it is ancient wisdom, as far as I am concerned.  This is the premise of many ancient teachings.  If you want freedom from suffering...then accept...accept Life as it unfolds in front of you right here, right now, no matter what she is offering. 

It is our resistance to Life based on our unending need to judge what is good and what is bad, what is pleasant, and what is painful, what should be grasped and clung to and what should be avoided or swatted away. ...that creates suffering...not Life.  Life is just doing what Life does.  It is what it is. 

Stop grasping at it for the things you judge as "good"and potentially happy-making and stop swatting at it when you see things you judge as bad, or that you assume will bring suffering. 

Events! All of it...just events, just surface phenomena. We waste so much energy trying to control what we allow to enter our experiences that we do not experience Life fully. Put down your butterfly nets and your tennis rackets and just experience Life here and now! It is perfect just the way it is in all its apparent "chaos". 

Whether you actually chose it or not, whether you actually are responsible for everything that is happening in your outer experience or not, doesn't matter.  It really doesn't.  But act as if you chose it and you are less likely to swat any offering from Life  away. You will accept it, embrace it, honor it and cherish it.

Hmmm!

Something to think about.

All is well.