How to live happily in a world we cannot control? [We must address] that question with a paradox: through accepting responsibility for our lives, we make our peace with all that is not as we would wish it to be. The way we learn acceptance is through awareness. It's not that we gain some power to change the circumstances of our lives, but that we develop the skill to determine our experience of those circumstances. This is what the Buddha talked about as ending suffering.
— Cheri Huber, When You're Falling, Dive!