Quotes About Surrender

In the world everyone wants to be a 'wolf,' and no one is called to play the part of 'sheep.' Yet the world cannot live without this living witness of sacrifice. That is why it is essential that Christians should be very careful not to be 'wolves' in the spiritual sense - that is, people who try to dominate others. Christians must accept the domination of other people, and offer the daily sacrifice of their lives, which is united with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

Lontano di già si è ritirato il mare Ma nei tuoi occhi socchiusi Due piccole onde son rimaste Demoni e meraviglie Venti e maree Due piccole onde per annegarmi.

Nothing describes the feeling of absolute dependence better than religion. The only time people turn to it is when they can't handle their own problems.

You cannot choose a Guru. Deepen your longing and the Guru will choose you

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.

If you were born to be a flood, you cannot insult Heaven by insisting you are a drought.

SHORT FORM OF THE SERENITY PRAYER—FUCK IT.

Y a mí, ya que prefiero escoger mis derrotas, quiero que me recuerdes derrotado, como quien algo espera más allá de los tiempos y los hechos. Quizás porque haga falta haberlo presagiado o porque, en todo caso, nadie sabe dónde acaban los sueños.

que a uno le pasan las cosas que le tienen que pasar

Man findet sich, indem man sich verliert

I am born anew at each green fall of the die, and by die-ing I eliminate my since. The past - paste, pus, piss - is all only illusory events created by a stone mask to justify an illusory stagnant present.

Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

Improving ourselves is not the sacrifice the Lord calls us to.

Real faith isn't the belief that God will do a particular thing; real faith is the conviction that God is good, no matter what he does and however he chooses to answer our prayers.

Offering thanks to God, no matter what is going on in our lives, is a way of acknowledging that he knows exactly what he is doing and that we can trust him.

God often acts contrary to how we think a good God should act. The answer we think we need seems so logical and clear to our way of thinking, yet God does not provide it. That is where faith comes in. Real faith isn't the belief that God will do a particular thing; real faith is the conviction that God is good, no matter what he does and however he chooses to answer our prayers.

That very thing you want God to fix may be his instrument to teach you first to depend on him rather than on yourself or on peaceful circumstances.

God isn't interested in helping us with our self-improvement program; he is interested in our holiness.

Lord, I think I made a mess of things. So I am placing the whole situation in your hands. Do with it what you will." Our

as long as I felt I had to take some action, I was anguished, and when I gave up all responsibility and stopped trying to do anything at all, I was relatively at peace, even though the earth meanwhile was circling so far below us and we were so high up in a defective airplane that would have trouble landing.

Filled with the joy of love, I gave up sadness.