In regards to eating meat

[Patrick]

I don't think that's what acceptance is about at all. Acceptance doesn't mean we have to live up to the expectations of another. That would be impossible anyway! And that would totally negate choice.

If you didn't feel like laughing at Monkey's comment, then it's not acceptance to laugh anyway just to please Monkey. (sorry, Monkey, hope you don't mind - this is just an example! NOT saying you expected him to laugh!)

If I, as a vegetarian, am displeased that you eat meat, that's my problem/challenge, not yours. I must accept you regardless of what you do, for me to 'accept' you.

And for me to accept you, doesn't mean I have to agree with your 'choice' to eat meat! I can simultaneously accept you and still disagree about eating meat.

Yes, it's paradoxical, but then, Ra did say they were here to teach us about resolution of paradox. That's where the power of choice resides, in my understanding. To simultaneously accept and choose, even if it's an entirely different choice, is very powerful and can help facilitate forgiveness. (but that's a whole 'nother topic.)

"Acceptance doesn't mean we have to live up to the expectations of another."

I think you're right. I want others to be in joy, but I want my self to be in joy too. I want all to be in joy.

This it seems cannot be, at least in 3d, and that is something I could accept.

I would say that this is what I am currently working on. This quote resonates very deeply with me at this time.

102.11 Each entity must, in order to completely unblock yellow ray, love all which are in relationship to it, with hope only of the other-selves’ joy, peace, and comfort.

Removing blockages in yellow ray within my sphere of influence seems like what I am going through right now.

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"...working to radiate the self regardless of the other-self distortions."

I'm not sure I really grasp this part. I understood this part to be about blue ray. It seems to me that being balanced in both green and blue, I would not radiate the self without regards to other selves?

I'm reminded of the sun which shines upon saint and sinner alike.

Ah yes, I see what you mean. I love your analogy.