Quotes About Surrender

It is with a certain lethargy that I let everything take its course.

There are plenty of Marxist-Leninist textbooks about taking power; but there are none about giving it up.

Letting go isn't giving up. It's understanding that the best is yet to come.

God gives His best to those who leave the choice to Him.

Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.

The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.

I think the best things happen when you just let go and see what comes in. I find that that's always the most satisfying.

If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.

Jesus Christ is the Master of the business we are doing. We are not the master

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

give up believing that being able to escape our loneliness is going to bring any lasting happiness or joy or sense of well-being or courage or strength.

I remember very clearly, at a time of enormous stress in my life, reading Alice in Wonderland. Alice became a heroine for me because she fell into this hole and she just free-fell. She didn't grab for the edges, she wasn't terrified, trying to stop her fall; she just fell and she looked at things as she went down. Then, when she landed, she was in a new place. She didn't take refuge in anything.

When we stop resisting and let the weather simply flow through us, we can live our lives completely. It's up to us.

We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

Love. Buddha nature. Courage. These are code words for things we don't know in our minds, but any of us could experience them. These are words that point to what life really is when we let things fall apart and let ourselves be nailed to the present moment.

When people ask me how long this will take, I say, "At least until you die.

It's as if you just looked at yourself in the mirror, and you saw a gorilla. The mirror's there; it's showing you, and what you see looks bad. You try to angle the mirror so you will look a little better, but no matter what you do, you still look like a gorilla. That's being nailed by life, the place where you have no choice except to embrace what's happening or push it away.

When the appearances of this life dissolve, May I, with ease and great happiness, Let go of all attachments to this life As a son or daughter returning home.

We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing our escape route, not looking for alternatives, not thinking that there is ample time to do things later.

In fact, we are giving up control altogether and letting concepts and ideals fall apart.

you'll eventually come to feel like you're in a battle with reality and reality is always winning.

Nonaggression and the Four Maras All the maras point the way to being completely awake and alive by letting go, by letting ourselves die moment after moment, at the end of each out-breath. When we wake up, we can live fully without seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, without re-creating ourselves when we fall apart.

Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing

put "Abandon hope" on your refrigerator door instead of more conventional aspirations like "Every day in every way I'm getting better and better.