Fighting a reality you cannot change is often the most respectable way we've invented to run from it. Acceptance isn't the white flag. If the reality is a cruel job, a contemptuous relationship, an injustice you can actually move, acceptance isn't the ceiling, it's the floor. OWNing a moment—Only this moment, Without fixation, Noticing—begins by dropping the fixation that reality should be other than it is. It's the moment change becomes possible at all.