Quotes About Surrender

When we give away our rights and surrender our wills, when we give our obedience, our return is "good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.

submitting to authority is never for evil, but always for blessing.

If from the beginning you always believed that a ticket was only one-way, then you wouldn't have to try so vainly to cling to the sand like an oyster to a rock.

As the river enters into the ocean, so my heart touches Thee.

So long as man clamours for the I and Mine, his works are as naught: When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.

Kako lahko nekdo, ki je v okovih, osvobodi okovanega ?loveka? Odrešitev pri?akuj le od nekoga, ki je že svoboden.

I offer myself to an image: the great being beyond boundaries and beyond beyond

So high is my Lord's palace, my heart trembles to mount its stairs: yet I must not be shy, if I would enjoy His love.

Como o rio que desagua no oceano assim o meu coração desagua em ti

How could the love between Thee and me sever? As the leaf of the lotus abides on the water: so thou art my Lord, and I am Thy servant. As the night-bird Chakor gazes all night at the moon: so Thou art my Lord and I am Thy servant. From the beginning until the ending of time, there is love between Thee and me; and how shall such love be extinguished? Kabir says: "As the river enters into the ocean, so my heart touches Thee.

Let the Jesus of your Spirit ride the donkey; Don't make your Jesus carry the donkey. Rumi, Mathnawi II: 1853-5

In our Tradition, we use the body to experience the presence of God. We can teach the body what it feels like to surrender to the Divine as our forehead touches the ground during prayer. This is something the body needs to tangibly experience. (p. 6)

Our first murshid (spiritual guide), Suleyman Dede, never claimed to do anything himself. When Suleyman Dede visited the United States, he said, "God brought me to this country, and He has taken me to all these different places, and He has arranged for these meetings to occur, for people to come, and He has made me say certain things. It is really amazing because I am not doing anything." (p. 10)

La storia della casa della moschea è lungi dall'essere conclusa, ma è come la vita: ognuno deve pur scendere da qualche parte. C'è una frase che ritorna sempre alla fine degli antichi racconti persiani: -La nostra storia è finita, ma il corvo è lungi dall'aver raggiunto il suo nido.

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.

Japan. "One can only imagine," Blackett wrote, "the hurry with which the two bombs—the only two existing—were whisked across the Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki just in time, but only just, to insure that the Japanese Government surrendered to American forces alone.

According to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, when he was informed of the existence of the bomb at the Potsdam Conference in July, he told Stimson he thought an atomic bombing was unnecessary because "the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing.

all my love, my pain, my passion were to be sacrificed for something greater, and yet i could not convince myself that i had mad the right choice.

and i will step out of the mirage, into your arms, to lose myself and find myself inside you.

enveloping her in the peace that comes from knowing your own powerlessness.

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un—We surely belong to Allah and to him we return.

Now I live in complete bliss. My every moment is an overwhelming joy. You have chosen the world and its miseries, and have given up joy and bliss. Tell me, young man. Is it I who is the renunciate? Or you?

I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.