Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender one's will, specially one's nafs al ammarah, that is a part of our soul which is again a Quranic term, which commands us to evil - we must surrender that. That's what it means. It doesn't make you become part of a cog of a machine.
The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered something awful. Even in the best recovery there'd be a fear that everything would fall apart and they'd become victims again. And their final loyalty was to themselves. They couldn't be forced. They preferred to wreck everything, preferred self-destruction to surrender. (175)
Surrender had played out for good with me.
In a real sense faith is total surrender to God.
What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.
The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.
There really is no such thing as failure. There is only the rearrangement of plans and surrender of ego.
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.
For you to access your own innermost as awareness is for you to surrender form after form after form, enabling you as awareness to recede to what you first are, for you to be meaning.
You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work of devotion and surrender, whether we can put aside our own agendas and allow the spirit to move through us.
I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened.
Surrendering means non-desiring.
All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
Will America lead. . . and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision?