- To avoid this burden and be able to fully embrace life, wise ones throughout the ages have taught the importance of accepting reality. Only by accepting reality can we work with the flow of life as it passes by and create a better world. ([Location 87](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LLTRR3Z&location=87)) - Acceptance is best understood as nonresistance to reality. Try as you may, no one can make an event that has already happened not have happened. Your only choice is to accept the event or resist it. ([Location 93](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09LLTRR3Z&location=93))