Originally Posted by jimhere

Yeah, you want to make sure you've got the right edition when you tell sometime to read page 449. In the Fourth Edition, page 449 tells about some guy prostituting his ass down on the street and picking up cigarette butts out of the gutter. Go read that, it will solve all your problems!

Originally Posted by jimhere

I never liked the term either. Life doesn't make terms. People make terms.

Originally Posted by jimhere

I always had a hard time incorporating the practice of acceptance into my spiritual life because of my resistance towards the word as it used in meetings. But several years ago that changed. Someone suggested I read Eckhart Tolle's "The Power Of Now." There are very simple practices in that book using acceptance that have radically changed my approach to the spiritual life.
Jim