In the words of Jon Kabat-Zinn:  "Acceptance is a very active process, there is nothing passive about it, it’s not passive resignation but an act of recognition that things are the way they are… Acceptance doesn’t mean we cant work to change the world, or circumstances, but it means that unless we accept things as they are, we will try to force things to be as they are not and that can create an enormous amount of difficulty. "  If we can learn to acknowledge reality we can make room for whatever is going on, saving ourselves and others increased difficulty.