Quotes About Surrender

The antidote to the stress and suffering caused by the egoic mind is letting everything be as it is.

Life unfolds as it will regardless of whether we like what's happening or not. By opposing life, we eventually learn this truth. We learn how impotent our opposition to life is and that this opposition causes only suffering. What's left is choosing to agree with life—to love whatever is, no matter what that looks like.

tu se´ colei che nelle tue mani hai la vita mia, e non la ti posso tôrre;

Se, joka pakotetaan antautumaan, saa voittajaltaan palveluksia: tappion kärsinyt palaa kotiin rikastuneena, siis oppineempana, ja hän on paremmin varustautunut tulevia koitoksia varten.

A thing is complete when you can let it be.

Não é preciso vigor nenhum para conquistar seja o que for», dizia ele, «tudo está podre e se rende, mas largar, saber deixar ir, isso é que conta.»

LA MADRE E il cuore quando d'un ultimo battito avrà fatto cadere il muro d'ombra per condurmi, Madre, sino al Signore, come una volta mi darai la mano. In ginocchio, decisa, Sarai una statua davanti all'eterno, come già ti vedeva quando eri ancora in vita. Alzerai tremante le vecchie braccia, come quando spirasti dicendo: Mio Dio, eccomi. E solo quando m'avrà perdonato, ti verrà desiderio di guardarmi. Ricorderai d'avermi atteso tanto, e avrai negli occhi un rapido sospiro.

It's just what you're stuck with, the lousy furniture you can't change. The educated me knows hell's nothing, a fiction I happened to inherit. The other me knows I'm going there. There must be a dozen mes these days, taking turns looking the other way." "It's the postmodern solution," I said. "Controlled multiple personality disorder. Pick a fiction and allocate it an aspect of yourself.

The pornologue's mantric (as is the Athanasian Creed, for that matter) sucking her down to a level of herself where no questions are asked, where her history evaporates, where her self bleeds painlessly into the void.

He didn't protest much. Evidently he had a penchant for surrender.

Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because the call was irresistible despite being recognizable. They were moths who know what the light is, know what it will do to them. And come anyway.

Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because the call was irresistible despite being recognizable. They were moths who know what the to light is, know what it will do to them. And they come anyway.

And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.

Any why are people afraid to "let go"? Because to "let go" implies a surrender of one's self to this whole process of "falling" and the most primary and early and deep rooted fear that every one is born with, so psychologists tell us, is the fear of falling. If a man can overcome his fear of falling he can overcome the world.

person who needs to control his life will eventually lose control of it. But those who can give up control of their lives, allowing me to guide and direct them, will enjoy the fullest life possible.

We make our own plans and expect God to back them.

Vieni, mio bel gatto, sul mio cuore innamorato; trattieni le unghie della zampa, e lasciami sprofondare nei tuoi occhi striati di metallo e d'agata" - Charles Baudelaire

God revealed that my view of my life and purpose was small compared to his. I had separated all the areas of my life and was destroying myself trying to keep everything balanced.

Now to night the world surrenders, Sacred love joins star to star; Little sparkles, greater splendours, Glitter near and gleam from far.

Quiero disfrutar dentro de mí lo que ha disfrutado el conjunto de la humanidad. Quiero apresar con mi espíritu lo más elevado y lo más sumido en la profundidad, amontonar su ventura y su dolor en mi pecho y, de esta manera, ampliar mi yo y convertirlo en el suyo, y, al final, sucumbir como ella misma.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.

If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.

Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.

I am totally in the hands of the Lord.