Quotes About Surrender

On the still calm waters of surrender the reflections of clarity appear

When you surrender and release the illusion of control, you begin to free-fall toward your destiny of a grand reunion with your original-self; a self uncorrupted by the worlds false lessons of fear and control.

Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.

Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.

Let go of everything. That is how you get everything; you let go of everything.

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation, and surrender.

There is no greater folly than to try to control that which is beyond our control.

Root out the love of self, as you might the autumn lotus with your hand.

In portaging from one river to another, Wabanakis had to carry their canoes and all other possessions. Everyone knew the value of traveling light and understood that it required leaving some things behind. Nothing encumbered movement more than fear, which was often the most difficult burden to surrender.

Now would all the waves were women, then I'd drown, and chassée with them evermore!

this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

Billy made no demur. But, indeed, any demur would have been as idle as the protest of a goldfinch popped into a cage.

It's the living who struggle to accept death.

However, what is done is better left alone, though we resent it still, and we must curb our hearts perforce...as for my death, when Zeus and the other deathless gods appoint it, let it come.

New York Times military analyst Hanson Baldwin wrote, shortly after the war: The enemy, in a military sense, was in a hopeless strategic position by the time the Potsdam demand for unconditional surrender was made on July 26. Such then, was the situation when we wiped out Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Need we have done it? No one can, of course, be positive, but the answer is almost certainly negative.

a privileged class never surrenders its tyranny, neither can it be expected that the capitalists of this age will give up their rulership without being forced to do it….

Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when *it* thinks you're ready.

Then there was organ music, a sort of feverish dirge, and then I was stepping out of my shorts and into the shower with Chenault. I remember the feel of those soapy little hands washing my back, keeping my eyes tightly shut while my soul fought a hopeless battle with my groin, then giving up like a drowning man and soaking the bed with our bodies.

leave the other stuff to Life

I brought my face up and put my head back, baring my neck to the wind like a lover, to the rain like an offering.