The focus of today’s class was “Acceptance.”
As promised, here is the etymology of acceptance:
Latin accipere, to receive
From ad + capere
ad, toward, near, to add
capere, to take, to capture
“Receive” is from the same Latin root, recipere, from re + capere, to take again.
We can take in the moment again and again. We can hold it near. We can lean toward life it as it comes walking, as it comes dancing, offering us over and over the gift of the present, the gift or our lives.
As Nia teacher Miel Freeman said today in class, when life presents us with things that cause pain, acceptance is when we surround those experiences with love.
Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
– Jelaluddin Rumi
translated by Coleman Barks
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