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Peter Alexander McWilliams (August 5, 1949 - June 14, 2000) was a writer and cannabis activist

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Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it the first law of personal growth.

– Peter McWilliams

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Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

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The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

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The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

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Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

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Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.

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Crises bring out the best in people—and the worst. They also bring out the best people—and the worst. What can one say about ignorant, arrogant, politically active people who say things like, AIDS is God's curse upon homosexuals? I can remember the words of Jesus: Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do, but then I remember Jesus said that moments after he was nailed to the cross.

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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.

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If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

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In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on

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Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

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Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.

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Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.

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That's the trouble, of course: we have taken sins out of God's domain, where they can be forgiven, and put them in the domain of law, where they can only be plea-bargained.

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To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

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You should be allowed to do whatever you want with your own person and property, as long as you don't physically harm the person or property of a nonconsenting other.

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