Humanity’s super power is universal acceptance

Did you know that hiding in your mind is a super power with the ability to radically transform your world for the better — more peaceful, less stressful, and more fulfilling?

The title of this essay reveals this power: our capability for universal acceptance.

So how does one unlock this power, then?

As one modern mindfulness guru, Eckhart Tolle says, we can surrender to, or accept — if not ultimately enjoy — any and everything that can possibly happen to us. This includes unpleasant events, from the benign to the catastrophic; there is always a silver lining or opportunity for us to find meaning in every event, no matter what.

Understandably, the mind’s first reaction to this idea of being able to willingly surrender to, accept, or possibly even find meaning in any event in life — even the most horrible or harrowing events — is probably curt dismissal. After all, you can probably think of dozens, if not hundreds of events which offer instant justification with which to reject this possibility of universal acceptance out of hand.

However, before you do that, I would urge you to read the book by the man in the photo above: Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. Viktor Frankl’s memoire of coming to find meaning even in the concentration camps of the Holocaust is…