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Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Surrender
Give up the search for something to happen and fall in love, fall intimately in
love with the gift of presence in ‘what is.’ ~Tony Parsons
Let yourself be made new by your willingness to drop everything you know,
and float in the Unknown sea of the Heart. ~Jeannie Zandi
Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.
~Eckhart Tolle
The best way is to simply surrender to Existence and allow it to take you
wherever it takes you; it has never taken anybody into any wrong space. It
always takes you back home. ~Osho
It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves
most wholly to God. ~Francois Fenelon
Surrender. Let silence have you. And if you find you are still swimming on the
surface of the ocean, let go and sink into the depths of love. ~Kar Kirpa Sahib
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the Universe.
~Larry Eisenberg
We do not live life. Life lives us. ~Joko Beck
Someone sent a band to my house,
And it started playing
At five in the morning.
I took it as a sign
God wanted me to sing!
~Hafiz
The moment you surrender to love and allow it to lead you to exactly where
you soul wants to go, you will have no difficulty. ~Neale Donald Walsh
Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you
interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it. ~Eckhart Tolle
The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. ~Lao Tzu
There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully
accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find answers with the
limited thinking mind. That is when the greater intelligence can operate
though you. Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and
becoming comfortable with not knowing. ~Eckhart Tolle
One act of surrender,
One change of heart,
One leap of faith,
can change our heart forever.
~Robert Holden
When you really surrender to the moment, even if it’s very unpleasant, you
feel “There’s no place I’d rather be.” ~Adyashanti
When one surrenders, one becomes like a valley. One becomes depth, not
height. Then the whole Existence begins to pour! ~Osho
We find this place of Silence through surrender, after perhaps years of struggle
to dis-cover the false self. ~Bob Fergeson
If you surrender to the truth that no phenomenon can ever touch, you are free.
~Gangaji
Welcome it, be tender to it, whatever it is, and you grasp the angel’s hand.
~Fra Giovanni
In the simple, direct experience of what is, you have an ongoing opportunity
to awaken out of the trance the mind perpetuates to the radiant fullness and
completeness of being. Just keep letting go and surrendering to what is.
~Stephan Bodian
Whatever you fight you strengthen, and what you resist, persists. ~Eckhart
Tolle
I might formulate it as an affirmation of things as they are; and unconditional
“yes” to that which is, without subjective protests. ~Carl Jung
It is, moreover, only in the state of complete abandonment and loneliness that
we experience the helpful powers of our own natures. ~C. G. Jung
How can the divine Oneness be seen? In beautiful forms, breathtaking
wonders, awe-inspiring miracles? The Tao is not obliged to present itself in
this way. If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even
in the most ordinary things. ~Lao Tzu
The path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be
terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.
~Carlos Castaneda
Difficulties along the way are opportunities in disguise; they reflect your
expectations. Facing them with surrender helps you follow a more peaceful
and perceptive life. ~Carl Abbott
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you
must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within
you, for that alone is sure. You are above everything distressing. ~Spinoza
As soon as you surrender the need to understand, you do understand. ~Gangaji
Complete surrender, complete nothingness, “yes” to everything. This is the
greatest power. ~Irena Tweedie
Something powerfully good and infinitely expansive is seeking to breathe
through you, lifting your life to its highest possibility. Say yes. ~Marianne
Williamson
Surrender all thought, emotion, and circumstance to that which is bigger and
deeper. Surrender your identity. Surrender your suffering to that which is
closer than identity, deeper than suffering. Do you discover victory or defeat
in this surrender? ~Gangaji
Surrender the need to understand and confusion dissolves. Only clarity
remains at the heart of silence. ~Leonard Jacobson
In surrender, you no longer need ego defenses and false masks. You become
very simple, very real. ~Eckhart Tolle
People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm
them. ~Meister Eckhart
Pain is a moment of grace because we surrender into the deep space around us
that is alive with consciousness, and fall into the arms of infinite Grace. ~Fred
La Motte
When you die of surrender,
only then you will live forever.
If you are put to death through surrender,
There is no such thing as death for you,
For you have died already.
~Persian poem
Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and
the easiest when it is done. ~Bhai Sahib
The inner reality of love means that you give all of yourself to the One until
nothing remains of you for you. ~Unknown
One is more likely to awaken through surrender than through seeking to
waken. The effort to awaken is the effort of the ego, whereas to surrender is to
give up all efforts and to place oneself in the hands of a vast force that is more
powerful than any realization of nonduality. ~Mariana Caplan
The journey to enlightenment involves shedding, not collecting. It’s a
continual process of opening and surrender, like taking off layer after layer of
clothes, until we’re completely naked with nothing to hide. But we can’t just
pretend, making a big display of disrobing, then putting everything back on
when no one’s looking. Our surrender has to be genuine. ~Pema Chodron
Suffering is exclusively the result of attachment or resistance, it is a sign of
lacking readiness to go on, to flow with life. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nothing is meaningful except surrendering to Love. Do it! ~Rumi
Surrender is giving oneness up to the origin of one’s Being. In due course, we
will know that our glory lies where we cease to exist. ~Ramana Maharshi
If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison
What’s wrong with falling apart? Why not fall apart so completely that there’s
nothing left? And then keep falling apart for the rest of your life, recognising
yourself as the wide open space of awareness that cannot fall apart, but deeply
allows all falling apart to happen? And then can you really call it ‘falling
apart’ at all? Thoroughly Fallen Apart, thoroughly ONE. ~Jeff Foster
Spiritual maturity is being ready to let go of everything. Giving is a first step,
but real giving-up is the insight that there’s nothing to be given up, since
nothing is your property. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life
then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no
taking care on your part. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
We tried reasoning
our way to Him:
it did not work;
but the moment we gave up,
no obstacle remained.
~Hakim Sanai
You have to sit with your life and feel how you hold it, and be willing for the
release to happen. It will happen spontaneously, because it’s already so. ~Reb
Anderson
Remember, when you are in a relaxed mood, you are not. You are, only when
you are in a tense mood. When you are relaxed you are part of the whole; you
are not. Then boundaries are blurred; then the whole and the part are no more
separate. They meet, they merge… surrender happens. ~Osho
This is what is asked of us, over and over and over, to offer our empty hands.
To let the things we are holding so tightly just drop. To give it all up,
everything, that does not exist in this moment here. All that has happened, that
we think we somehow need to do something about, all that we think might
happen, or we hope will happen, every sweet dream that we cling to. This is
like God’s loving strip search, give it all over! Something else wants to live
you. And you can feel it. ~Jeannie Zandi
Self-surrender is the surrender of all self-concern. It cannot be done, it
happens when you realise your true nature. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj