Quotes About Surrender

Dance until you shatter yourself.

For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.

Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.

There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.

Nothing of spiritual significance comes without sacrifice. Your spirituality will always be measured by the size of your sacrifice.

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.

When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.

We truly need Him every hour, whether they be hours of sunshine or of rain.

If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.

As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.

Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.

My spiritual goal is to one day walk into God and disappear.

That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.

Don't try to steer the river.

Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.

Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat.

Devotion means your involvement with life is no more conditional.

To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting.

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

Would you rather be right or free?

For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering.