{"id":20437,"date":"2024-01-30T22:01:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T06:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/compassionprisonproject.org\/?page_id=20437"},"modified":"2025-05-28T23:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:30:58","slug":"day-19","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/compassionprisonproject.org\/day-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 19"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Today, choose to accept yourself as you are. See yourself as unique, loving, capable and bright. By accepting yourself just as you are, you are modeling nonviolence.<\/p>

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  • How can you find acceptance for yourself?<\/li>
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      \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRobert Holden<\/span><\/cite>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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      \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cThe first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
      \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNathaniel Branden<\/span><\/cite>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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      \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cAcceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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      \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cAcceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.\u201d \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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