The Seer

When you accept the form that this moment takes, that is the miracle: the form of this moment becomes an opening into the formless within you. And the worse, the more challenging that this moment is and you accept it, the deeper it takes you into the unconditioned space consciousness or into peace.

So if you were faced with a dreadful disaster in your life, it arises at this moment, everything is collapsed. And you face it and see the isness of this moment just is as it is, you look death in the face. You accept the form that this moment takes completely and suddenly, you sense something that really cannot be described; it’s a spaciousness or peace around that dreadful event. It happens within a field of peace or space.

And I wouldn’t use here the word happy; you are not happy when that happens, nor are you unhappy. It is beyond happiness and unhappiness. There is a serenity and a peace that come. You make room for it to happen, you allow it to happen. You make space for it to happen,

Humans don’t make space for things to happen; they want to remove space from things. So if something is happening and you make space for it, you become the space. And this is the grace that is hidden underneath so-called bad events.

~ From: Journey Into Yourself by Eckhart Tolle