Smile List 06-25-2020

I’ve been posting Things That Make Me Smile and everything I have posted up until this point has come externally. Not that there is anything wrong with appreciating things that make you feel good and come from outside of yourself, but when you have a thought that just warns your insides and you realize it came from within, then that happiness feels so intimate and so connecting between body, mind and soul. Today, as I think about my alcoholism, my sexuality, my marriage, my relationships with people, my career and jobs and so many other things a thought came to me – even though I have heard it before for other people and sources – the thought came to me as I pondered things in my life:

Acceptance is freedom!