Bailing out and carrying on

What I am about to say is not something that many of us would like to hear.

I don't think yoga changes us, at least not in essence, but it does help us understand and accept who we are. While this may sound simple, it is a lengthy and costly process.

Understanding requires a lucidity of judgment that is expressed through both introspection and abstraction. And (self-)acceptance is a very, very intricate subject.

Accepting ourselves does not mean resigning to what we are. If we don't like something about our nature or temper, the urge towards modification is not something useless and by no means negative, but first, we need to put up with what we are and make peace with ourselves.

We may have flaws just as we may have virtues. The path to acceptance would go through not boasting about those virtues and not self-shaming for those flaws.