Quotes About Surrender

It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.

Efter midnat, naar epidemien har sejret totalt, og byen med alle sine senge er de søvnsyges hospital, Der kan leves i disse timer inden morgengryet, men ingen tænker på det, alle sover.

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

y vuelta y vuelta a tanta terca tuerca para entregarse entero o de tres cuartos harto ya de mitades y de cuartos al entrevero exhausto de los lechos deshechos o darse noche y día sin descanso contra todos los nervios del misterio del más allá de acá

Les vagues sont hautes ce soir. Elles me frappent, me rouent de coups, s'abattent sur moi avec toute la brutalité nécessaire. À cet instant c'est exactement ce que j'attends d'elles. Qu'elles m'assomment. Me foutent la tête sous l'eau.

The meaning of the expression "with the Heavenly Principle as the master" is just the opposite. It means that we should abandon our self-centered wills, be free from personal opinions, be absorbed both physically and spiritually in whatever concerns us at the moment, and become completely one with things.

Every act I live while I am fully awake can not help but be both prayer and lovemaking.

When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us.

He makes Himself known to those who, after doing all that their powers will allow, confess that they need help from Him.

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

Disciples are not so much those who follow as those who must follow.

If we truly know why we trust God—and that crucial if must be answered with full intellectual and spiritual assurance—if we truly know why we trust God, then God is greater than all, and God may be trusted in all situations, despite everyone and everything.

To believe in Jesus is to bow twice and then to obey forever

but conformity to the will and the way of Jesus is life and freedom itself—under his authority.

When I lay next to her my body was enveloped in her current, which mingled with my own harsher current of gloom like a " withered leaf settling to rest on the stones at the bottom of a pool." I had freed myself from fear and uneasiness.

Even if one is not "qualified to be loved," one is eternally "qualified to love." To seek only the joy of being adored is to surrender to savagery and ignorance.

Fuera se extendía el océano de la irracionalidad, y lanzarme a nadar en sus aguas hasta morir se me hacía más placentero.

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You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.

I want you now so awfully, No longer jealous-green, I bring myself as offering Up to the guillotine.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having--viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life...

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.