Surrender Quotes

Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power. Now they are vanishing and I drift. I come, Mother, I come, in Thy warm bosom, floating wheresoever Thou takest me, in the voiceless, in the strange, in the wonderland, I come - a spectator, no more an actor.

You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper under, a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely.

I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that.

To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on. True surrender, however, is something entirely different. It does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yourself in and to do nothing about it. Nor does it mean to cease making plans or initiating positive action. Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where every bit of shattered boat sinks to the bottom. An alligator lifts its head and swallows the ocean, then the ocean floor becomes a desert covering the alligator in sand drifts. Changes do happen. I do not know how, or what remains of what has disappeared into the absolute. I hear so many stories and explanations, but I keep quiet, because I don’t know anything, and because something I swallowed in the ocean has made me completely content with ignorance.

Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.

We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

Part of the thrill of guiding children into adulthood is the release. But it's also a parent's greatest act of surrender. Still, you have to let them go. Start now.

I never went out and said, "I want to do this." I never do that. I wait for things to come to me, either within or without, and I go along with it.

I'm in love! Your advice, what are they? Love has poisoned me! Your remedies, what are they? I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!" But if my heart that has gone mad! Those strings on my feet What is the point?

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

Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.

There is a difference between motivation and inspiration. Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and don't let go of it until you make it a reality. Inspiration is the reverse-when an idea gets hold of you and you feel compelled to let that impulse or energy carry you along. You get to a point where you realize that you're no longer in charge, that there's a driving force inside you that can't be stopped.

Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.

Since you are not a prophet, follow the way taught by prophets.Since you are not a king, be a loyal subject to The King.Since you are not a captain, do not take the helm of the ship.Since you do not possess every skill, have partners in your business.Be as pliant as dough in the hands of others, that you may rise well.

Send out love and harmony, put your mind and body in a peaceful place, and then allow the universe to work in the perfect way that it knows how.

Be crumbled.So wild flowers will come up where you are.You have been stony for too many years.Try something different.Surrender.

I generally had to give in.

The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.

At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!

To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

If your heart isn't yet illuminedBe awake always, be a seeker of the heart,Be at war continually with your carnal soul.But if your heart is already awakened,Sleep peacefully, sleep in the arms of Love

Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything of lasting value. You then continue to meet people, to be involved in experience and activities, but without the wants and fears of the egoic self. That is to say, you no longer demand that a situation, person, place, or event should satisfy you or make you happy. It's passing and imperfect nature is allowed to be.

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

Leave life alone. Let it be.

Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.

This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.

In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated.

Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.

Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.

You are the fountain of the sun. I'm the shadow of a willow. You fall upon my forehead. I melt. You slip into my heart. It spills open. You surround me with such sweetness. I make it my home.

When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.

Instead of creating expectations of what should or should not be happening, cooperate with the form that this moment takes.Bring a 'yes' to the isness, because it's pointless to argue if it already is.A greater intelligence is available to you when you no longer reject, deny, or 'don't want' what is.

What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Dance until you shatter yourself.

If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.

When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.

Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.

The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing.

If someone asks,But what is Love?Answer,Dissolving the will.

The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.

Use whatever challenge comes into your life as a kind of fuel for the flame of consciousness. That is done through surrender to what is. Some people may need more of that than others. If you choose presence in your daily life you may not need the drastic challenges.

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me.

Now the time is come,That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest,And let her head fall into England's lap.

Submit to love without thinking

You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

Nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love. Do it.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

When you are falling --- Dive!

Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.

By surrendering, you create an energy field of receptivity for the solution to appear.