Quotes About Surrender

Faith isn't denying the reality of your circumstances; faith is denying these circumstances the right to remain in control of your life.

So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area. What should we do? Shall we take the position that, submitting to threat, it is better to surrender pieces of free territory in the hope that this will satisfy the appetite of the aggressor and we shall have peace?

i will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness in the sleeping curves of my body

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.

In surrender, you no longer need ego defenses and false masks. You become very simple, very real. "That's dangerous," says the ego. "You'll get hurt. You'll become vulnerable." What the ego doesn't know, of course, is that only through the letting go of resistance, through becoming "vulnerable," can you discover your true and essential invulnerability.

Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.

Surrender comes when you no longer ask, "Why is this happening to me?

The secret of life is to "die before you die" — and find that there is no death.

Don't look for peace. Don't look for any ther state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrencer.

Instead of asking, "what do I want from life?," a more powerful question is, "what does life want from me?

Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.

Everything is honored, but nothing matters.

Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time -- surrendered to life.

Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond...If you fight it, you're stuck with it.

Deny thy self!

When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. The realm of Being, which had been obscured by the mind, then opens up. Suddenly, a great stillness arises within you, an unfathomable sense of peace. And within that peace, there is great joy. And within that joy, there is love. And at the innermost core, there is the sacred, the immeasurable, That which cannot be named.

Always say "yes" to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is? What could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say "yes" to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness.

El amor no desea ni teme nada.

Death is the stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to die before you die -- and find that there is no death.