Curating Content To Support Learning About Humanity's Transition

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From my latest article on Medium (don't forget to follow in case facebook blows up): …

From my latest article on Medium (don’t forget to follow in case facebook blows up):

“We accept the reality of something we cannot control but we don’t need to condone it. As such, Acceptance goes beyond tolerance. It is both deeper and more compassionate than tolerance — and it can help us discern when to tolerate and what to tolerate.

Tolerance, a highly celebrated virtue in liberal democracies, is overrated. Just consider what you’d prefer: a society where we just tolerate one another despite our flaws, or a society where we accept each other — including our less admirable sides. What would Jesus do?

So basically, Acceptance in this sense is just our capacity to take in the truth of the matter in a given moment, to the best of our cognitive ability, while resisting the unconscious temptation to bargain with reality. It is what it is. It’s our relationship to the truth, however well we may approach. Or, as Gandhi said: Truth is God. That’s the core principle of Acceptance.”

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Growing the inner capacity to accept things-as-they-are may be the best investment ever for society—and no, cultivating acceptance doesn’t…


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