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Markus Salcher about Acceptance

Talent Garden

part of a series on Acceptance

About the speaker

⛷️Speaker Announcement ⛷️

Markus Salcher was born in 1991 with a disability. He is half paralyzed but was lucky to get born in a sportive Family. As the second of two Brothers. He was allowed to try all activities .

Nowadays @markus_salcher is Athletes Representative of the Austrian Paralympic Comitee and austrian Ski federation.
Markus achieved everything what you can achieve in our Sport.

But there is still lots of work to do. Acceptance is one of his key goals, on which he is working on.

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May ’s Theme is Acceptance.

Acceptance is the act of surrendering to our reality, without judgment or fear. There are many things in our lives that cause us discomfort or pain. We attempt to change or resist them, to no effect. So we wave a big stick, keeping them at bay like a wounded animal.

Acceptance is weaving into your story what once caused you pain — and still might, to this day. You welcome that creature into your home, tend to its wounds, and feed it out of your hand. Acceptance is knowing that this feral animal lives side by side with your tender house cat of a heart, always.

Embracing what cannot change can help you gather the energy to change what must. Accept these truths: you cannot make another person love or see you. You did not finish everything before the sun set on another day — and you didn’t need to. Every moment will pass, the blissful and the excruciating. It’s the hardest lesson, but one we need the most: the grace to let go.

Our Lexington chapter chose this month’s exploration of Acceptance and Robert Beatty illustrated the theme.