Quotes About Surrender

He'd forgotten what it felt like to surrender to the comfort of tranquility.

We heard you were ready to die," the largest rabbit said. "We have come for you." "But I'm not dead yet!" Pinocchio cried. "You will be in just a few minutes, if you don't take your medicine." Pinocchio swallowed his medicine in one quick gulp. Almost immediately, he felt as good as new. He had to admit, when one is sick, even bitter medicine is a very sweet thing.

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

Nothing is wrong—whatever is happening is just "real life.

I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

We can't understand the nature of reality until we let go of controlling our experience.

We speak about losing our minds as if it is a bad thing. I say, lose your mind. Do it purposefully. Find out who you really are beyond your thoughts and beliefs. • VIRONIKA TUGALEVA

When we get lost in our stories, we lose touch with our actual experience. Leaning into the future, or rehashing the past, we leave the living experience of the immediate moment. Our trance deepens as we move through the day driven by "I have to do more to be okay" or "I am incomplete; I need more to be happy." These "mantras" reinforce the trance-belief that our life should be different from what it is.

Radical Acceptance reverses our habit of living at war with experiences that are unfamiliar, frightening or intense. It is the necessary antidote to years of neglecting ourselves, years of judging and treating ourselves harshly, years of rejecting this moment's experience. Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it is. A moment of Radical Acceptance is a moment of genuine freedom.

The way out of our cage begins with accepting absolutely everything about ourselves and our lives, by embracing with wakefulness and care our moment-to-moment experience.

myself, "What would it be like if I could accept life—accept this moment—exactly as it is?

Taking our hands off the controls and pausing is an opportunity to clearly see the wants and fears that are driving us.... Often the moment when we most need to pause is exactly when it feels most intolerable to do so.

Everything within and around us is subject to change; the truth that if we try to hold on to or resist the stream of experience, we deepen the trance of fear.

You nights of anguish. Why didn't I kneel more deeply to accept you, Inconsolable sisters, and, surrendering, lose myself in your loosened hair. How we squander our hours of pain. How we gaze beyond them into the bitter duration To see if they have an end. Though they are really Seasons of us, our winter …

no matter how hard we try to control life, we have no sway over the bedrock realities of change, loss, and mortality.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it is. A moment of Radical Acceptance is a moment of genuine freedom. The

Aceptación Radical empieza a desplegarse cuando nos asomamos a la vivencia del momento, soltando nuestras historias y acogiendo con suavidad nuestro dolor o nuestro deseo. Las dos partes de la aceptación verdadera (ver con claridad y acoger nuestra vivencia con compasión) dependen la una de la otra, como las dos alas de un ave de alto vuelo. Las dos juntas nos permiten volar y ser libres.

Radical Acceptance is the art of engaging fully in this world — wholeheartedly caring about the preciousness of life — while also resting in the formless awareness that allows this life to arise and pass away.

God had shown her that He was not simply overseeing her journey, but that He WAS her journey. The realization had not taken away the pain but had brought her a tremendous amount of peace.

Roy raised my hand to his lips. "Sometimes when you like where you end up, you don't care how you got there.

Maybe that's what it means to be in love, to willingly be at the mercy of another person.

You got to work with the god you were given.

Todos los hombres son esclavos. Ellos lo han querido así. Solo Dios puede liberarlos. Él, que les dio la libertad en el nacimiento, aunque ellos hayan renunciado siempre a ella y siempre renuncien.

Giving up doesn't always mean your weak, sometimes it just means you're strong enough to let go.