Acceptance, Approval, and Other "A" Words

[Steppingfeet]

In my mind, the answer goes something like this: In order to transcend duality, we must accept the darkness and negativity in our experience. But we do not have to approve of it. When I think this thought, something in my heart goes Ding! Ding! Ding!.

Yet I am not Webster, and I didn't invent the English language. So what to do? Shall I give up? Try harder? Go to a cave and meditate until the winter solstice?

So anyway this is my rather long-winded approach to ask the question- does anybody else feel this way? And is there any hope for a solution?

Awesome post TN, and great questions.

This is one I've grappled with as well. How do you accept while saying "no"? How do you love while drawing a boundary? How do you say "yes" and welcome everything into your heart, while not accepting certain actions?

Eckharte Tolle touches on this. He equates "acceptance" with "inner non-resistance". To be in a state of inner non-resistance is to release all mental resistance to what is. It is a a matter of saying "yes" and embracing the suchness of the present moment without reservation. He suggests embracing it in such a way that you feel like you chose whatever is happening in the present moment.

He however he feels that one can be in a state of inner non-resistance to what IS while simultaneously declining something that is not felt to be in the best interest of the self.

What confuses me is why positive entities engaged in this fourth-density thought-battle lose polarity. I don't understand why the positive beings cannot accept the negative beings as the Creator, while saying, "Thanks but no thanks" to the negative entities' attempts to enslave the positive.

Why does that necessarily result in a loss of polarity?

My only working answer so far is that perhaps it is a function of fourth-density understanding. Perhaps with fifth-density understanding, they could draw that boundary, say "no" to the service while saying "yes" to the service-giver, and not lose polarity.

But then again, the attempt is never made on either side in fifth-density, as they posses the wisdom to refrain from battle altogether.