Acceptance and Surrender

Even within the seemingly most unacceptable and painful situation is concealed a deeper good and within every disaster is contained the seed of grace.

Throughout history, there have been women and men who, in the face of great loss, illness, imprisonment, or impending death, accepted the seemingly unacceptable and thus found "the peace that passeth all understanding."

Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.

~ From "Stillness Speaks" by Eckhart Tolle ~

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

For instance, you may have a disability and can't walk anymore. The condition is as it is.

Perhaps your mind is now creating a story that says, “This is what my life has come to. I have ended up in a wheelchair. Life has treated me harshly and unfairly. I don't deserve this.”

Can you accept the "is-ness" of this moment and not confuse it with a story the mind has created around it?

~ Eckhart Tolle ~

Posted by: LINELLA BRECKENRIDGE

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