The great Indian thinker and spiritual teacher J. Krishnamurti spent more than fifty years travelling the world, striving to put into words a message that words could never quite contain. Near the end of his life, in one of his talks, he startled his audience with a question:

“Would you like to know my secret?” Everyone fell silent and attentive. In the crowd were many who had listened to him for twenty or thirty years and still had never grasped the essence of his teaching. At last, after all those years, the master was about to hand them the key to understanding.

“This is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.” He offered no further explanation, and I imagine his listeners were more puzzled than before. Yet the message carried in that simple sentence was, in truth, immensely powerful.

When I don’t mind what happens, what does that mean? It means I am inwardly aligned with what is. “What is,” of course, refers to the situation exactly as it appears in this moment — its content, its shape, right now. To be at one with what is means to meet life with no inner resistance: to label nothing in the mind as good or bad, but simply to let it be as it is. Does this mean you will do nothing to change your life? No — quite the opposite. When the ground of your actions is alignment with the present moment, your actions are charged with the intelligence of Life itself.

— Eckhart Tolle, “The Power of Now”