Cynthia Fortlage explores how acceptance without understanding can evolve into acceptance with understanding. She connects the idea to unconditional love and human connection, arguing that starting without needing to fully grasp something allows room for growth and deeper comprehension over time.
Hey everyone, Cynthia Fortlage here. Good morning from Colombia. I wanted to come to you today to share a brief insight with you. So for— if you've known me for a while, you've certainly heard me talk about acceptance without understanding. Now, acceptance without understanding, for those that do recall, came from my own personal history of being loved enough but not loved enough to be accepted. And really, that gets into a whole dialogue when we talk about unconditional love, whether we're talking about as a partner or kids, etc. And that really, true love becomes this idea of love and acceptance of the person that you're with. So This week I've had a really interesting evolution on the thought process to deal with it. Now, I've never said that you never need to understand. I've always talked about it in a post-acceptance world. And I think that to really help people grasp the depth of understanding of this is I'm going to start changing the phrase a little bit. What you're going to hear me say is not just acceptance without understanding, but we begin with acceptance without understanding and we grow to acceptance with understanding. Again, let me say that for you. We begin with acceptance without understanding. But we grow to have acceptance with understanding. In other words, in order to establish that connection with someone, a human connection, we need to accept each other. And as we accept each other, we will naturally have dialogue. That dialogue will lead to understanding. Therefore, we grow in getting to know each other to have acceptance with understanding. Again, we begin with acceptance without understanding and we grow to acceptance with understanding. That's kind of been my evolution. I'm continuing to work on it and refine it. But I really wanted to share it with you to let you know that even in my world, I continue to grow, and I just accept that this journey is a continuing journey of growth. Let me say that again. Acceptance is a journey that you continually grow. So please join me in acceptance without understanding so that we can grow to acceptance with understanding. And today, I think as a society, we need that more than ever. Con amor y abrazos, de Colombia.
