I love it when you drop these brutally honest titles 😅 And, I love this concept! I first learned about it when I had to go through DBT. In DBT they call it "Radical Acceptance" There's also a poem I love... I hope it's OK to post here The Undressing by Rumi Learn the alchemy true human beings know the moment you accept what troubles you have been given, the door opens. Welcome difficulty, as a familiar comrade. Joke with torment, sent by the Friend. Sorrows are old rags of clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. This is the undressing, and the naked body underneath is the sweetness that comes after grief.
There is a Brazilian book called "36 Days." It is an account by the author who survived for 36 days alone in the Amazon rainforest after his plane crashed in an uninhabited region, with the nearest civilization 400 km away. For those unfamiliar with the forest, Brazilians affectionately call it the "Green Hell." It is so dense that it is nearly impossible to walk without cutting a path, extremely humid, and incredibly hot, with a flora and fauna that are very dangerous. Throughout the book, he constantly complains about the rain. It prevented him from sleeping and made walking very difficult. Among countless problems such as hunger, thirst, lack of shelter, and the danger of being killed by wild animals, what he complained about the most was the unbearable rain. After 36 days, having lost more than 40% of his body weight and facing numerous challenges, he finally finds a camp of castanheiros, families who go deep into the forest to make a living by harvesting Brazil nuts. After a few hours and having contacted his relatives, he talks to the mother of this family of castanheiros. She tells him, "You are very lucky." He responds, "Lucky? Why?" She explains, "We weren't supposed to be here. We moved to this area because the place we were at a few days ago flooded due to all the rain, and we had to relocate to continue our harvesting." The summary of the story is that the thing he hated the most during those 36 days, and would have given anything to stop, was what ultimately saved his life. Be grateful for everything, even the problems, because they might be the ones to transform your life and help you grow.
Thank you so much for sharing this. It’s really interesting and eye-opening! Could you please tell us the author’s name? Has the book been translated into English? I googled it and didn’t find anything.
“The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.” -Meister Eckhart
Not sure how Meister Eckhart would feel or respond that today someone who’s texting often takes priority over “The most significant person, the one sitting across from you right now.”
"This is exactly as it should be because it took the entire universe to come up with this moment. When you struggle against this moment, you struggle against the entire universe" Ever since I heard that quote my life has changed.
This video argues that our constant struggle to attain desires and avoid unwanted things is mostly self-inflicted and can be stopped immediately by changing our perspective. Drawing on insights from Meister Eckhart and Seneca, it suggests that suffering stems from our attachment to external things. By accepting and even embracing what happens to us as part of a greater will-whether you call it God, the universe, or life-we can stop fighting and start living fully in the present. This approach aligns with teachings from various religious and philosophical traditions, emphasizing that true strength lies in surrender and adaptability.
"Surrender is strength not an act of weakness". This is message so important, so simple yet so hard to understand and to live fully. IMHO this is your most profound teaching yet. You are a natural sage.
I always tell myself that it is YOU who saves yourself from your own misery. Surrendering requires a form of solitude, because of course surrendering involves vulnerability. Amazing video!
Too often we are hiding behind busyness as an escape from something we're been avoiding. Distractions may bring us temporary sense of satisfaction but distractions can never compensate for the emptiness in our soul. You educate us, you inspire us to slow down to realize that life is too precious to just allow it to pass us by, to understand whatever we focus on is deciding our future. Good luck with everything! Whatever vision you have for the future we are here supporting You!
Many overachieving hard-working and intelligent young people are using that work distraction to avoid dealing with very deep trauma. When they burn out life can come crashing down, and a long road may lie ahead.
I experienced a magical response to detachment/surrender in the Paris airport. I was in a massive barely moving customs line between flights with 1.5 hours until boarding cutoff and realized after the first hour of stressful waiting and not even half way through the line, I would be missing my flight. I said, “Oh well! Maybe I’ll be meeting my future husband in the airport food court.” Then a staff came and opened the ropes directly in front of me and directed me to the business class agent with no line!!! It was so distinct and cool (I made my flight - universe said “no husband for you, bish”)
I watched some of your videos this morning before I went to the dentist as I knew I has 3 fillings ahead of me . I needed some wise words to calm me down and funnily enough I surrendered my imense fear as soon as I sat in the dentist chair. I realised there was no point being scared as it was beyond my control so I trusted that man who spent years studying people's mouths and I felt great !! I totally relaxed and surrendered to the situation so it's ironic that I identified with your talk about surrendering in this video. Sometimes it's all you can do. .Thank you 🙂🌷
Brother, you have an incredible ability to convey ancient teachings in a way i can digest. Your last video on avoiding life’s work summed up a lot of the guilt I have felt for a while. Many thanks.
Why do I feel like having deep talks in a quiet study room, with a low light casting shadows upon the room. It feels very comfortable being in this room with you. This channel feels like an absolute silence my brain needs. It’s like flowing.
Your comment conveys exactly what I was just thinking. It’s his demeanour. He speaks with compassion and knowledge but there’s also a paternal sternness looming saying ‘get it together’. The room, the books, the lighting-it’s monastic. Peace. Quiet. It allows the mind to open.
you’ve helped change my perspective, i’d lie, cheat, steal, endulge in senseless pleasures putting off my future self, manipulate. my conscious was begging for help and you answered all my questions, everything that will ever come of us happens from right now, tomorrow will always be tomorrow but it really is now or never. thank you for your contributions to this society, i look forward to every post you share. thank you for being you
The problem with this stoic philosophy of surrendering/submitting is that you never know what you can and what you can't change. You'll be surprised how powerful we actually are in shaping our reality.
What he means or well, what I had understand is that the stoic and all others lines of thought works on that critical moments trough life, making the capital production and human value apart of it
Perhaps that's where discernment plays a part? Certainly applicable to moments of acute distress where one's ability to effect change could be hampered or even distorted into fueling an unfavored reality. Helps avoid the feedback loop of limiting beliefs that can result from trying to fight against circumstance and thus give you more time to discern and shape your reality as you see fit.
The calmness with absolute gems from different sources, with profound logic and talking about things touching the nerve…what more could be but divine help. Thank you human angel, I needed this.
Beautiful for younger generations,wish I knew when young.At 70,we older people need a new compass how to not feel useless and ignored by siblings.Thx so much
I’ve been falling asleep to your videos every night this week, they’ve been therapeutic. And I just so happened to discover your channel at a time where I’m personally changing within. Thanks for the content!
Despite your frequent comments about it, and our focus in these videos on personal growth rather than external factors, I still want to congratulate you on reaching 100k subscriptions! It's great to know that your message is reaching more and more people. Thanks for uploading these videos each Wednesday.
@@acceptingtheuniverse I just finished the video. Yesterday I wrote, but still, I keep the habit of watching the videos in the morning, so i just watched it today. I'm quite excited about the streaming!!! Will see you there.
Your videos are now a part of my night time routine. They're so refreshing and feel like I'm attending a lecture in uni haha. I really enjoy un-winding at the end of the day and learning about new ideas to challenge my previously held perceptions feels like the perfect way to end the day. I've never sat down to study Philosophy and know only a little about the key philosophers, so I really enjoy your videos.
Your talent for calmly and simply translating all this wisdom and guidance in life’s many pathways makes it pure pleasure to listen in each week made all the more evident by all the appreciative comments from your subs. Thank you and looking forward to the live!💯
I thought I was doing better this past weekend. Then got down mentally Monday & physically sick the last 2 days. Needed this video as a great reminder. Thank you ♡
Regarding your increase in followers, you mentioned at the end and of which I became one today. I think it is the result of an increasing need for depth and meaning again. Of thoughtfulness and even spirituality, for ideas that actually mean something and offer some challenge to the mind.. in a world consumed by witticisms on X, short nonsense clips on TikTok etc. I am a 55 year old man in Sweden who admires your content, and finds it interesting to follow you, as well as see some of your older material as well. Thanks!
It’s a blessing that you share these words with us it really helped me through a lotta hard times and gave me a better understanding and point of view, I’m grateful thank you
Earlier today, I was just thinking about letting go and accepting life's events and circumstances without attempting to control them and your video pops up. Thank you for the great video.
your calmness and other humanistic emotions also evoke what I feel in my inner self. Being spaced in the greatest way to see the world from another perspective requires new skills that we've been trying to deep into more. thanks for this video.
I am very grateful that I have discovered Your YT channel. The wisdom that You share with us is very underrated. I had a lot of suffering in my life. But Your videos help me to focus my mind on a life - timeless truths and keep inner peace inspite of circumstances . Greetings from Poland ❤
Watching this video only a couple of hours after it was posted makes me think it was sent to me by the universe. I'm midway through my med finals and I've been dealing with burnout and conflicted emotions that's been difficult to navigate through. This video has told me things I needed to hear long ago. seriously thank you.
I have been discovering and exploring psychology lately and I figured that Carl Jung was also saying something similar- we have the shadow self, which is actually the unconscious self, when we have desire for something but when if there is external matters that prevents us to reach or satisfy that desire, we restore that desire into our shadow container, which becomes our 'shadow'- however, in this shadow, we have the truest desire you know if someone wanted to become a singer and when it is not allowed in family members, this person suppress the desire to sing, and maybe this becomes this person's shadow, and this shadow, if it is neglected to be faced, becomes other bad thing - like, ugly feeling or other physical symptoms, like anxiety- so well, you are saying very true, and I am happy to be able to gain insights about this topic, from another perspective, thanks!
Thank you so much..for all that you do with calmness and clarity... such an inspiration for all of us..blessing to you your wife and dog.. she's so precious.❤
Eckhardt’s Mystical Sermons astonish me. Sermon 1 provides the context for positioning ourselves, our mind in a space beyond the time-stream in order to ‘maintain a wholly God-receptive attitude.’ In doing so, we waive our limitations in favor of the protective care of God, where there are no limits. “Here, in time, we are celebrating the eternal birth which God the Father bore and bears unceasingly in eternity, because this same birth is now born in time, in human nature. St. Augustine says, ‘What does it avail me that this birth is always happening, if it does not happen in me? That it should happen in me is what matters.’” It goes on to talk about where in the soul God the Father speaks his word, where this birth takes place and where she is receptive of this act. “When all things lay in the midst of silence, then there are descended down into me from on high, from the royal throne, a secret word.” This sermon is about that word. Thanks for your work!!
somehow your words manage to understand ny thoughts... i found your channel yesterday and i'm enchanted by your speechs, they feel like talking with someone with deep honesty.
Funny little synchronicity- I have to return to the DMV on Monday because I lost my patience with the long line last week. I’ll remember this. Love what you’re doing here. 🙂
Who is this beautiful man speaking beautiful words? What a blessing to stumble upon your video and channel. Just what I needed today. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much for making this content. I’ve never heard anyone link the concepts or radical acceptance (if I may call it that) to living in the present/now which is the only thing we really have. I didn’t know content like this existed on YT and it’s incredibly valuable. Thank you, once again. I will look at more of your videos. In fact, I’m going to curate my YT subscriptions to eliminate everything that wastes my time. Thanks from Australia.
i dont know if youll ever get to see this but i found u when i was going through a tough break up, and ive been watching each of your videos ever since. i hope all the blessings come your way for sharing your thoughts and ideas onto us here, and adding to our knowledge. You have a profound speech and i get inspired and hope to be as wise as you are
This is the truth, in a nutshell. I’ve never liked the idea of giving up, not fighting, but I can see if I don’t surrender, then I have to fight indefinitely, and like you say, miss every moment. Maybe that’s the resist not evil that Jesus speaks of. That is so hard to understand, but I think you and the other philosophers have cleared it up for me. And, SO excited about the livestream. Congratulations on your subscribers! Thank you so much for these videos.😊
After finishing watching the video and reading the title again its what touched me the most ! It made me realise that you know you can grab a knife and deleting your life any momment but you still here because you really want it , you want to live , achieve things, have momments with friends.
I really love how calm your are and how slowly but consciously you're talking . I do speak english and i can understand , but it's not my first language and the way you're talking helps me to understand everything clearly . And i was very concerned about your environmental noises and i heard none. So i'm so happy to see an absolutely handsome person not being scared to sit in silence and talking extremely calmly . Have a good day , you made my day . Now i'm gonna sleep peacefully knowing that i don't have to fight bigger things to have a better future ❤
This video is coming at a good time. I've been struggling lately. Even though I've been really lucky, I haven't felt grateful. Instead, I've been feeling anxious and restless because I've been worried about things I can't control.
I've really been enjoying the chill and wholesome vibes of your teachings on stoicism and other wisdom traditions. I want to want what the universe is giving me right now. I accept with open arms that which is, now. Such a useful teaching and it dovetails nicely with the recent Buddhist education I was receiving on letting go of desire, aversion, and delusion. Thanks for your work.
I've been flying as a passenger for 25 years multiple flights a year and I still have severe flight anxiety. This helps as I have a flight tomorrow. It also helps as I moved to a suburban town and I'm not living I'm planning my exit and I should be appreciating the perspective it's given me.
Thanks, been nodding this whole time you were talking, but sometimes it's really really hard to get over the present when it's the realization of everything you feared. But it's true that we should strive to align our will with that of God, it would bring a lot of peace. Great video as usual!
