Tao's Chambers - Self Realization & Acceptance Part 2

How can we find ourselves in discomfort? Why would an aversion to discomfort be detrimental to growth? How can self-realization come of discomfort? How can our attitudes about discomfort help with self-realization? How are idealisms and external pressures resistant to our internal self-realizations, discomfort, and acceptance of that? How can change and growth be hard to accept?

What’s the difference between holding expectations and standards, and being self-critical? Understanding our mistakes can aid in our self-realizations, and help us address and realize who we’re becoming. How can a change in attitude affect this? How can letting discomfort be a teacher be a difficult process?

Acceptance is the realization of a need for change but doesn’t mean one has to agree with or tolerate everything. How can accepting who we’ve become in our self-realizations aid in our growth?