Grant me the Serenity
To Accept the Things I Cannot Change,
The Courage to Change the Things I Can,
And the Wisdom to Know the Difference.
-- AA "Serenity Prayer"
It's not that things are as they should be, but rather that things are
as they are. To see things as lawful does not mean that we accept the
unacceptable.
-- Narayan Liebenson Grady.
Buddhadharma, Spring 2004, p. 14.