There are five possible operations for any army. If you can fight, fight; if you cannot fight, defend; if you cannot defend, flee; if you cannot flee, surrender; if you cannot surrender, die.
I will surrender to the moment today.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont
Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.
The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.
If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned consciousness which in a state of inner openness you become one with. Circumstances and people then become helpful, cooperative. Coincidences happen. If no action is possible, you rest in the peace and inner stillness that come with surrender.
Don't surrender leadership of your life to your moods
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
When you have no idea how to surrender and you're tied up in knots, JUST BREATHE!
We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.
Surrender doesn't obstruct power; it enhances it.
Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.
Enlightenment is always through surrender, but surrender is achieved through intelligence. Only idiots cannot surrender. To surrender you need great intelligence. To see the point of surrender is the climax of insight; to see the point that you are not separate from existence is the highest that intelligence can give to you.
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.
Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.
The simple intention to surrender control is all you need to experience miracles.
To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.
What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.
She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.