detachment

"When you are detached, you gain a higher vantage point from which to view the events in your life instead of being trapped inside them. You become like an astronaut who sees the planet Earth surrounded by the vastness of space and realizes a paradoxical truth: The earth is precious and at the same time insignificant. The recognition that This, too, will pass brings detachment and with detachment another dimension comes into your life -- inner space. Through detachment, as well as nonjudgment and inner nonresistance, you gain access to that dimension."

--Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Inner Purpose, p. 225