Love Begins with Acceptance

If you accept yourself
You can love yourself

If you love yourself
You can accept another as their self

If you accept another
You can love that person

As their own identity
Separate from yours

If you see their identity
You can see the brilliance in their life

A unique individual
Completely unique and the same

The same universal truth
One Soul

One Creator
One life

Each life
Living a unique life

If you can accept every life
You can love

You must love every life
You must accept every life

Whether you agree or disagree
With their Mind’s words and actions

To love
To love as the One loves

All life
All creations

Acceptance
Acceptance as the one that accepts the One

There is no explanation
There is no opinion

There is life
Life lived as One

All are forgiven
All are loved

If you must see what you hate
Look in the mirror

If you must see what you disagree with
Look in the mirror

Every day
Look in the mirror

Tell the person you see
That they are wrong

If you do not accept all
You are wrong

You are not a Saint
And you do not act Saintly

If you do not accept all
If you do not welcome all

Look in the mirror
Can you look away from your faults

Look into your own eyes
Can you see the drop of the Beloved

Can you see your own Light
Can you forgive yourself

Can you accept the mistakes that you made
Can you forgive yourself and move on

Can you love
Freely again

Can you support all
As if they are the One that started it all

The more you accept others
The more others will accept others and so on

Create
The love you long for

Create
The neutral environment you long for

Forgive those that have hated
Welcome them to your home

All are forgiven
All are forgiven

Every wrong that has been done
Is seen by the One

Every moment of pain
Is healed by the One

What wrong did you create
When you were in pain

Was your pain eased
By causing pain in another

Did your mind forget your pain
When you allowed your mind to create darkness

Look in the mirror
Accept your life as what you are

See your entire life
Accept every aspect of what you are

Accept and forgive
Love your life as every life

Sat Nam

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