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Quotes About Surrender

You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it. In fact, demolition is easy, for the false dissolves when it is discovered.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Forget your past experiences and achievements and stand naked, exposed to the winds and rains of life, and you will have a chance.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Freedom means letting go. People just do not care to let go of everything. They do not know that the finite is the price of the infinite, as death is the price of immortality. Spiritual maturity lies in the readiness to let go of everything. The giving up is the first step. But the real giving up is in realizing that there is nothing to give up, for nothing is your own.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
When there is total surrender, complete relinquishment of all concern with one's past, present and future, with one's physical and spiritual security and standing, a new life dawns, full of love and beauty; then the guru is not important, for the disciple has broken the shell of self-defense. Complete self-surrender is liberation by itself.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Trace your misunderstandings and abandon them, that is all. There is nothing to seek or find, for there is nothing lost. Relax and watch the "I am." Reality is just behind it. Keep quiet, keep silent; it will emerge or, rather, it will take you in.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Give up all and you gain all. Then life becomes what it was meant to be: pure radiation from an inexhaustible source. In that light, the world appears dimly like a dream.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Happiness is never your own; it is where the "I" is not.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Everybody has a theory, Judge Nadir has come to believe. A conviction, dogged and tenacious, which they refuse to surrender. This is the American way.
~ Noah Hawley
Acceptance is the key to happiness. You need to surrender yourself to the truth. You won't be happy until you do.
~ Noah Hawley
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security." Gail Sheehy
~ Unknown
The only difference between meditation and non meditation is that when we meditate we are not grasping anything or trying to do anything: instead we are releasing ourselves to our lives, with trust that our lives are all we need. (78)
~ Unknown
At about the time France caved in, I remember some of the men saying, 'That could be the end.' We were very worried that the government would sue for peace. The idea that this very exciting life might suddenly come to an end, and that we might all find ourselves back doing office work,
~ Unknown
We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.
~ Norman Mailer
I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord's hands. There is no harm in the Lord's hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord's hands it is the Lord's will and it is good.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Hinüber wall ich, Und jede Pein Wird einst ein Satchel Der Wollust sein. Noch wenig Zeiten, So bin ich los, Und liege trunken Der Lieb' im Schoß
~ Novalis
I've gone and hired myself out. I've hired myself out to Death.
~ Unknown
Tired of these endless games, Time to end the darkened day To raise the sword To kill the light Because there is no reason left to fight...
~ Unknown
Sen birden çökeceksin Selim. Çünkü neden? Çünkü için bo? senin. Birden, kollar?m?n aras?nda için bo?alarak; birden üçüncü boyutunu kaybedip bir düzlem olacaks?n ve ben de seni duvarda bir çiviye asaca??m.
~ Unknown
Her ?eyle aram? bozdum art?k. Her ?ey bana dü?man kesildi. Tanr?m, diye dü?ündüm ilk defa. ?lk defa, Tanr?m dedim, b?raks?nlar beni art?k...
~ Unknown
Let go of me." It smoothed its tentacles again. "Be grateful, Joe. I'm not going to let go of you.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers. EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
~ Octavia E. Butler
Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers. EARTHSEED:
~ Octavia E. Butler
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
~ Octavio Paz
Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.
~ Octavio Paz