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Acceptance doesn't mean that you've resigned yourself to live the rest of your life with a particular person, or in a particular situation. It just means that you won't cause yourself emotional discomfort because of the way things are in this moment.

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Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.
It is only your mental habits and your selected memories of how you think things are that keep you from moulding things in your life in a more harmonious way.
You always have enough to be happy. It's the patterns in your head that make you unhappy.
By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You thus use every uncomfortable emotion as an opportunity for consciousness growth. Even though you may still be feeling emotional and uptight, you begin to get at the roots of your ups and downs - your brief bits of pleasure and your long periods of unhappiness.
As the watcher of the screen, you are perfect. The movie that is playing on the screen might be horrendous, but you are not the movie. You are what is watching the movie.
If you want those around you to act in a more loving and conscious manner, act in a way that helps them to do so.
Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.
As we grow in higher consciousness, we discover that it is more important to be the right person then to find the right person.
Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.
You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.