the more we accept the world as it is,
the more readily forgiveness and gratitude appear

Q: What is both easiest and most difficult?

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giving up success and failure,
there is nothing to regret

inspiration is everywhere,
some days I’m just too lazy to look

with life not turning out
as wanted, expected, hoped –
why this gratitude?

not distinguishing pain from suffering is itself suffering

to be utterly without hope is also to be utterly without despair

the one free extension is almost done,
taxes are due in three more days,
I have no IRS approved excuse for delaying any longer;
I could do them now,
but there’s still three days

instead I write thes lines;
absent a true emergency
they’ll be filed on time,
they always are

I used to worry and call myself a procrastinator,
now I worry not and just call me me

so simple, yet so seeming hard to accept:
there is nothing that is not It

we can accept our pain without liking it even though the pain remains until it, as all things, passes

ease in living accompanies acceptance of life’s finitude

there is no end to acceptance or, perhaps better, to accepting