Acceptance is the road to a quiet mind. When one can accept the truth of a situation, then the clear understanding of what the next step should be comes without confusion. When human beings understand that the past cannot be changed, they have gathered one form of acceptance. When these same people come to a place of feeling acceptance, there is no room for denial. Without denial, we are free to respond to the growth opportunities that may have originally been hidden from us by the critical voices of the past. There is only one place where true acceptance is found, and that place in the present moment of the Now.
Indian children were once taught by their Elders to be in a constant state of alertness and were trained to observe everything in their surroundings. Being authentically aware of what was happening had its own rewards: game for dinner, early warning systems, lessons on the animals, prevention of accidents, and acceptance of any situation that needed an instant independent solution.
Jamie Sams in Earth Medicine
Acceptance is not fatalism. I believe it is the acceptance of environment and awareness of the world around us. That awareness helps us avoid what some folks call accidents, that really aren't because somebody wasn't paying attention.
Acceptance realizes that the war is over we stop refighting the Civil War, the War of Northern Aggression, Viet Nam, the first Iraqui war, the Afghan civil war, the second Iraqui war, whatever.
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