Surrender each moment to the reality of that moment.
- By knowing that what is cannot be undone, because it already is, you say yes to what is, or accept what isn’t.
- Then you do what you have to do, whatever the situation requires.
- If you abide in this state of acceptance, you create no more negativity, no more suffering, and no more unhappiness.
- You then live in a state of nonresistance, a state of grace and lightness, free of struggle.
If you cannot accept what is outside, then accept what is inside.
- If you cannot accept the external condition, accept the internal condition.
- This means: Do not resist the pain. Allow it to be there.
- Surrender to the grief, despair, loneliness, or whatever forms the suffering takes.
- Witness it without labeling in mentally.
- Embrace it. Then see how the miracle of surrender transmutes deep suffering into deep peace.
When there is no way out, there is still always a way through. So don’t turn away from the pain. Face it. Feel it fully. Feel it – don’t think about it!
- Express it if necessary, but don’t create a script in your mind around it.
- Give all your attention to the feeling, not to the person, event, or situation that seems to have caused it.
- Don’t let the mind use the pain to create a victim identity for yourself out of it.
Surrender is perfectly compatible with taking action, initiating change, or achieving goals. But in the surrendered state a totally different energy (a different quality), flows into your doing.
- Surrender reconnects you with the source-energy of Being, and if your doing is infused with Being, it becomes a joyful celebration of life energy that takes you more deeply in the Now.
- Through nonresistance, the quality of your consciousness and, therefore, the quality of whatever you are doing or creating is enhanced immeasurably.
- The results will then look after themselves and reflect that quality.
- We could call this surrendered action. It is not work as we have know it for thousands of years.
- As more humans awaken, the word work is going to disappear from our vocabulary, and perhaps a word will be created to replace it.
Re-source: Relinquish
Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.
- It is to relinquish inner resistance to what is.
Your relationship will be changed profoundly by surrender. If you can never accept what is, by implication you will not be able to accept anybody the way they are.
- You will judge, criticize, label, reduce, or attempt to change people.
If you continuously make the Now into a means to an end in the future, you will also make every person you encounter or relate with into a means to an end.
- The relationship – the human being – is then of secondary importance to you, or of no importance at all.
- What you can get out of the relationship is primary – be it material gain, a sense of power, physical pleasure, or some form of ego gratification.
Until there is surrender, unconscious role-playing constitutes a large part of human interaction. 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.
craving and resource from “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle
