If we can see areas of our life and our world where we've become resigned we can simply acknowledge it and declare our responsibility for how we relate to whatever we've become resigned to.
She owns it, you simply acknowledge it.
If a thought does arise, simply acknowledge it, label it "thought" and allow it to disappear in your mind's eye.
Last November, the voters didn't endorse failure — they simply acknowledged it.
On Wednesday, he spoke of "the debt that I and millions of Americans" owe "those maids, those laborers, those porters, those secretaries; folks who could have run a company maybe if they had ever had a chance," but he suggested no way to make good that debt, no responsibility on his part, whether as a black man or as President, to see it repaid, in any other way than by simply acknowledging it.
Either one identifies with an aspect of oneself in the sense of simply acknowledging it (without judgment) or one identifies with a desire in an aspirational, approving sense of that term.
Thus, while A Pattern Language is widely referenced in architectural scholarship, most of these references simply acknowledge its existence and fail to engage with its content.
Despite the influence and impact of Alexander's second theory, it has been rejected or ignored by many architects, and many academic references to the theory simply acknowledge its existence rather than attempting to engage with its ideas.
"All they were saying they were going to do is simply acknowledge that it might exist, as opposed to saying it does not exist," Jennifer Bremer, an economic development consultant who attended the meeting as a guest, told The Huffington Post.
Inevitably, your mind will wander and the course leader will invite you to simply acknowledge where it went and gently bring your attention back to the breath without being critical that this has happened.
What actually would make sense is for MSNBC to simply acknowledge what it is, drop this vestigial bit of pretence to impartiality, and follow Fox News in allowing its stridently partisan cast of hosts to support politicians and causes with cash as well as air time, softball questions, opposition research, public relations, and propaganda.
