Every morning I go to the bakery on the next street to buy freshly baked bread that comes from a nearby village in the mountains. But...

Yesterday, when the rain finally stopped and the sun began to shine, I headed out for a walk. It was warm enough for shorts and sandals,...

A couple of years ago, I was heading back to Spain from England, where I’d been visiting friends and family. I needed to catch a train to...

What’s the difference between a preference and a demand? And what do they have to do with acceptance? Both preferences and demands are...

Many of us now live in extremely comfortable circumstances. We’re well fed, live in solid houses that protect us from the elements, and...

You’ve talked a lot about accepting whatever’s coming up in the moment, but what about the past and the future? Do we have to accept...

“Be Here Now” has become a kind of cliché, and you may be tired of hearing it. But it’s become a cliché for good reason. Because it’s...

How can we stop obsessing about the future when everything seems so uncertain? The future is uncertain. And that’s the first thing we...

If we’re trying to deal with troubling emotions, it’s important to understand exactly what needs to be accepted. We’re often not able to...

Last summer, while we were on vacation on the coast, I found myself watching Annchen doing her energetic yoga practice out on the patio...

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It...

During my years living in Asia, I used to go for meditation retreats in Sri Lanka about once a year. I’d head up into the mountains and...

So I’ve started to make significant progress in accepting myself just as I am. But what about you? How can I possibly begin to accept the...

When we talk about somebody having a victim identity, we tend to think of a case where the person has become quite dysfunctional—a person...

When I first came to Spain twenty-five years ago, I found a job teaching English in a private school. As the new teacher in town, I was...

Be prepared—the more accepting we become of things that are clearly “unacceptable,” the more the world will tell us we’re wrong. In...

Unfortunately, we often sabotage our acceptance by engaging in what for many of us is our favorite pastime—moaning. It never ceases to...

Nothing is more important than doing nothing. Sitting doing nothing is the most basic of meditative practices, and yet it has the...

Whatever type of practice we’re doing, the main focus is always to keep the attention on the experience of the present moment. Once we’re...