#Surrender Quotes

“So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.”

“Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.”

“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”

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

“Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love.”

“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.”

“Submit to love without thinking”

“Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.”

“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.”

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

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

“Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.”

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

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

“Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.”

“If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.”

“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?”

“Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises”

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

“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.”

“A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you. I've disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you. I've forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I've become a scholar. I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am able. I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself.”

“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.”

“Submit to love without thinking,as the sun rose this morningrecklessly extinguishingour star-candle minds.”

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

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

“Try squeezing a handful of water, and see how quickly it disappears. But relax and let your hand flow in the same water, and you have the experience of the water as long as you like.”

“Whatever I fight weakens me. Whatever I cooperate with strengthens me.”

“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.”

“Beauty through my senses stole;I yielded myself to the perfect whole.”

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

“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.”

“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!”

“A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice. In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice.”

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

“I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.”

“Nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love. Do it.”

“I opened my arms to Love and Love embraced me like a Lover”

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

“O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core.”

“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.”

“The intellectual is always showing off,the lover is always getting lost.The intellectual runs away.afraid of drowning;the whole business of loveis to drown in the sea.Intellectuals plan their repose;lovers are ashamed to rest.The lover is always alone.even surrounded by people;like water and oil, he remains apart.The man who goes to the troubleof giving advice to a loverget nothing. He's mocked by passion.Love is like musk. It attracts attention.Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.”

“Try something different. Surrender.”

“Dance until you shatter yourself.”

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

“Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love,if you are too careful, LOVE will not find you.”

“Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.”

“The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.”

“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.”

“All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.”

“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.”