So often when we attempt to deal with our struggles we approach it with the expectation of getting rid of an unpleasant experience, feeling, thought. This “getting rid of” mind set is at the very core of what prolongs our suffering. It sets up the duality of a “me” against an “it.” With the associated attachment that there should be no suffering in the first place. Hmmmm. Let’s soften our relating to our suffering. Embrace a wiser presence with our imperfections. A genuine and compassionate acceptance. What if we learn to sit in the presence of our being? Our entire being. Not just the parts we like. To sit with great patience openness and compassion to our complete being. Rejecting nothing. No medicating, no running away, no self-condemning. To have the courage to rest in the presence of even those parts we have come to push away and reject. Courage with great love. Compassionate acceptance invites us to recognize, accept and hold those very parts of our being that our resistance has been the fuel …