Acceptance is the necessary prerequisite to peace. Acceptance is not resignation or denial or defeat or ignoring.In a state of resignation, you may forego seeking support, perhaps even fearing that you could be a burden. It defines acceptance as: Willingness to tolerate a difficult situation: a mood of resigned acceptance. Accepting one's fate means embracing reality with peace and adaptability, while resigning to it implies passive surrender and a sense of defeat. When we are resigned we feel hopeless, incapable and powerless. Underlying all we do is the thought, "What's the point? The resigned person often ends up feeling detached from their own life, because, as indicated earlier, they feel that they have no sense of agency. It involves fully acknowledging and accepting reality without attempting to fight, deny, or change it. Resigned is "acceptance of something unpleasant that one cannot do anything about.