Is Acceptance,as part of the definition below describes it, the answer to our getting along?

Question

"Acceptance, in spirituality, mindfulness, and human psychology, usually refers to the experience of a situation without an intention to change that situation. Acceptance does not require that change is possible or even conceivable, nor does it require that the situation be desired or approved by those accepting it. Indeed, acceptance is often suggested when a situation is both disliked and unchangeable, or when change may be possible only at great cost or risk. Acceptance may imply only a lack of outward, behavioral attempts at possible change, but the word is also used more specifically for a felt or hypothesized cognitive or emotional state. Thus someone may decide to take no action against a situation and yet be said to have not accepted it."

Peace and Love

Answer 1

You are accepted
" It happens; or it does not happen. And certainly it does not happen if we try to force it upon ourselves, just as it shall not happen so long as we think, in our self-complacency, that we have no need of it. Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of a meaningless and empty life. It strikes us when we feel that our separation is deeper than usual, because we have violated another life, a life which we loved, or from which we were estranged. It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our indifference, our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of direction and composure have become intolerable to us. It strikes us when, year after year, the longed-for perfection of life does not appear, when the old compulsions reign within us as they have for decades, when despair destroys all joy and courage. Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: "You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later. Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted!" If that happens to us, we experience grace After such an experience we may not be better than before, and we may not believe more than before. But everything is transformed. In that moment, grace conquers sin, and reconciliation bridges the gulf of estrangement. And nothing is demanded of this experience, no religious or moral or intellectual presupposition, nothing but acceptance."
(Paul Tillich)

Answer 2

Based upon qualities inherent to humans, I believe the answer is tolerance rather than acceptance. Assuming the definition above, there would have to be a major change in the human psyche to allow for true acceptance of divergent beliefs. Tolerance, however, is possible regardless of the inner feelings of the one by whom it is practiced.

Answer 3

such acceptance is not possible for many revealed religions.
If you believe that your religion is the "one true" religion, and that all others are not only false, but actually corrupting, then you can never have such acceptance.
For example, christianity and islam both actively promote the spread of their religions. They are, of course, incompatible with each other in that each claims exclusive possession of "the truth".

Answer 4

Sorry I am too old for that one. Afteer 15 phrases or clauses my brain shuts down. I think they call it Old Timers disease. I guess I just won't be able to get along.

Answer 5

yes, i think so. but i think respect is also key. i don't think you can accept someone else's differences if you have no respect for other people, or if you don't respect that other people have the right to be different

Answer 6

"Acknowledgment" is probably a better word.