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Acceptance (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠is unresisting proved its therapeutic value yet again when Yahweh calmed down at last.

Acceptance (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the lowest in you must come from love — he who accepts it from pride, selfishness and greed is damned.

Acceptance (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠real only when the very worst in the patient is accepted too — and only a doctor who has accepted his own dark side can do it.

Acceptance (n.) must ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠come before change: we cannot change anything until we accept it, and condemnation does not free — it oppresses.

Acceptance (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠raises the dead is not cold, lofty or self-punishing, but done with relish — that equivocal, impure, holy-wicked relish about which you cannot tell whether it is virtue or vice.

Acceptance (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠everything — war, superstition, the treasures of all cultures — overwhelms: "You do not know your limits. Can you not limit yourself?"

Acceptance (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠reality as it is, not as one wanted it, brought a former patient unexpected knowledge and power: only by accepting things can one take up an attitude toward them, rather than being overpowered.