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Quotes About Surrender

Believe me," St. Vincent de Paul said to his priests, "we will never be any use in doing God's work until we become thoroughly convinced that, of ourselves, we are better fitted to ruin everything than to make a success of it.
~ Jean-Baptiste Chautard
Au moment où le sujet meurt, Satan propose son marché. La vie sauve contre une totale soumission. La promesse de faire le mal. On appelle cette « transaction » le Serment des Limbes. »
~ Jean-Christophe Grangé
No tienes nada, no puedes tener ni retener nada, y he aquí lo que necesitas amar y saber. He aquí lo que corresponde a un saber de amor. Ama lo que se te escapa, ama a aquel que se va. Ama que se vaya
~ Jean-Luc Nancy
if I have aught it is gave from Thy Hand
~ Jean-Marie de la Trinite
It was not only at the moment of his manifestation that he made an offering of his life, but since the beginning of the world that he gave his life in offering.
~ Jean-Yves Leloup
The point isn't to make yourself feel that you're a part of everything, but to stop for one minute insisting with every thought and feeling that you're not.
~ Jed McKenna
No one can push you, pull you, or go with you. All thoughts, ideas, feelings, concepts, and systems of knowledge and belief boil down to this one unequivocal distinction; sewer or sunshine, dungeon or daylight, ego or surrender, obstruction or flow, segregation or integration, vertical entrenchment or horizontal progress.
~ Jed McKenna
Everything is exactly as it should be, including your belief that it is not
~ Jed McKenna
To surrender is to relinquish the illusion of control, which initiates the death part of the death/rebirth process, which is the transition from the bondage of the womb-like Segregated State to the freedom of the ever-expanding Integrated State. No faith or belief is required to accomplish this act of surrender, only clear-seeing. When one begins to understand ego and fear for what they really are, then this process becomes as easy and natural as dropping a heavy weight.
~ Jed McKenna
Be careful what you wish for, not because you'll get it but because you'll be turned into the thing that can get it. It's not a process where you just ask for something and it magically appears, it's a process that breaks you down and rebuilds you into the right tool for the job.
~ Jed McKenna
Surrender is victory.
~ Jed McKenna
Life is a series of abandonings.
~ JEFF ABBOTT
I surrendered who I was to who you are..
~ Jeff Buckley
Stop thinking your way through life, always trying to work it out before living it. Life is to be lived, not analyzed to death. Feel
~ Jeff Foster
Let life kick you off your pedestal time and time again, until you lose all interest in being on pedestals.
~ Jeff Foster
Stop trying to heal yourself, fix yourself, even awaken yourself. Let go of letting go. Stop trying to fast-forward the movie of your life, chasing futures that never seem to arrive. Instead, bow deeply to yourself as you actually are. Your pain, your sorrow, your doubts, your deepest longing, your fearful thoughts...are not mistakes, and they aren't asking to be healing. They are asking to be held. Here, now, lightly, in the loving arms of present awareness.
~ Jeff Foster
to live an abundant life meant to be controlled by the Holy Spirit.
~ Jeff Harshbarger
You are allowed one final statement, Mera of Xebel. It will be relayed to the Atlantean Council. Perhaps a curse upon our real? Or a loving goodbye to King Arthur? Mera: Surrender. Now.
~ Jeff Parker
You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.
~ Jeff Tweedy
I really wanted to lose myself. People my entire life have told me I am too much in control, but that has never been the case. I have never truly been in control, have never wanted control.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Above all, don't think, for what you think happens!
~ Jeff Vandermeer
In the end, if you change the enemy enough, if you wear them down, perhaps losing is good enough.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Die? Then so be it.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
I've nothing, am nothing, shall be nothing, and yet I take nothing.
~ Elias Canetti