L&C

Compare the following statements:

“The edge is where making ourselves wrong ends and the possibility of acceptance begins.”

“The edge is where acceptance ends and the possibility of making ourselves wrong begins.”

The first statement assumes wrongness as the default and acceptance as a possibility.

Whereas the second statement acceptance is the default and wrongness is a possibility.

The first creates two tasks, 1) ending the practice of making ourselves wrong, and 2) opening up to the possibility of acceptance.

The second has no task because it assumes acceptance as the starting point. You’re already there! You don’t have to get to it, you just notice when you’re making yourself wrong (“Oh, there I go judging myself, thinking some part of me is bad or wrong). 

Both statements point to the same edge, but the framing is critical.

The first asks you to do something to become something, while the second asks you to just be, and you are.