Quotes About Surrender

When a condition or situation that the mind has attached itself to and identified with changes or disappears, the mind cannot accept it. It will cling to the disappearing condition and resist the change. It is almost as if a limb were being torn off your body.

Tajna života jest »umrijeti prije smrti« - i otkriti kako smrt ne postoji.

completely accept what is, because you cannot give your full attention to something and at the same time resist it.

How to stop creating time? Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation. Always say "yes" to the present moment. What

Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

So give up waiting as a state of mind.

This is my secret,' he said. 'I don't mind what happens.' ... To be in alignment with what is means to be in a relationship of inner nonresistance with what happens.

It is not so much that you use your mind wrongly — you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

TO OFFER NO RESISTANCE TO LIFE is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your

Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

That one step is called surrender. I do not mean to say that you will become happy in such a situation. You will not. But fear and pain will become transmuted into inner peace.

The answer, the strength, the right action or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after.

La rendición no es debilidad. Hay gran fortaleza en ella. Sólo una persona rendida tiene poder espiritual. Por medio de la rendición, usted será libre interiormente de la situación.

When forms that you had identified with, that gave you your sense of self, collapse or are taken away, it can lead to a collapse of the ego, since ego is identification with form.

The mind always seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it.

Will you become less when you let go of it?

Enlightenment consciously chosen means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now the main focus of your life.

All it means it that sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

Surrender to what is. Say "yes" to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

NOW HERE IS YOUR SECOND CHANCE AT SURRENDER: If you cannot accept what is outside, then accept what is inside. If you cannot accept the external condition, accept the internal condition.

Inner resistance is to say "no" to what is, through mental judgment and emotional negativity. It becomes particularly pronounced when things "go wrong," which means that there is a gap between the demands or rigid expectations of your mind and what is. That is the pain gap.

El perdón es no ofrecer resistencia a la vida, permitir a la vida vivir a través de usted. Las

When I don't mind what happens, what does that imply? It implies that internally I am in alignment with what happens. "What happens," of course, refers to the suchness of this moment, which always already is as it is.