Quotes About Surrender

Permit the paradox of wanting the irritant to vanish and allowing it to be what it is. Look inward for it in your thoughts and allow yourself to feel it wherever it is and however it moves in your body.

let go of any ideas you have about controlling anything or anyone, including yourself.

we needn't presume to tell our Source what needs to be done to provide us with a happy, fulfilling life.

you get it by letting go.

Do not resist the natural course of your life.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego.

Don't try so hard to make something work—simply allow.

Living by Natural Law This verse speaks of a natural law that's unaffected by ego. The message? You're not in charge—you never have been, and you never will be. So you're advised to let go of any ideas you have about controlling anything or anyone, including yourself.

Let the world unfold without always attempting to figure it all out.

Give up needing to control. Begin a conscious program of surrendering, and allowing your world and everyone in it to do as they are ordained to do.

You can steer while still enjoying this glorious ride, but if you elect to fight it, you'll ultimately get pulled under by its current. This is true for every aspect of your life: The more you push against it, the more resistance you create.

allow rather than interfere.

move freely, unencumbered with thoughts about where you should be and how you should be acting.

quit fighting your calling.

consciously free your mind from attempting to control the events of your life.

Each day, practice letting go and seeing where you're directed. Take note of who shows up and when.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.

Try letting life come to you

Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heard why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope. What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.

After you have said "thy will be done," what more can be said?

should be one of trust and abandonment.

How often he had been dumbfounded—at first incredulous, then contemptuous—to hear someone say, after a night of drinking, "God, take it away, I don't want to smell it, I don't want to see it even, take it out of my sight!"—this at the very moment when he wanted and needed it most.