The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

Perhaps change only takes place when there is sufficient reason to overcome the inertia of everyday life. Challenging situations create the force needed to bring about change. The problem is that we generally use all the stirred-up energy intended to bring about change, to resist change. I was learning to sit quietly in the midst of the howling win

clearly remember deciding that from now on if life was unfolding in a certain way, and the only reason I was resisting it was because of a personal preference, I would let go of my preference and let life be in charge.

If I had a choice between using this real-life situation to get my way or to free myself from being bound to my way, I would choose freedom every time.

My personal experience is that aligning one’s will with the natural forces unfolding around us leads to some surprisingly powerful results.

By that stage of my growth, I could see that the practice of surrender was actually done in two, very distinct steps: first, you let go of the personal reactions of like and dislike that form inside your mind and heart; and second, with the resultant sense of clarity, you simply look to see what is being asked of you by the situation unfolding in f

“Every day bite off more than you can chew, and chew it.”

what would happen if we respected the flow of life and used our free will to participate in what’s unfolding, instead of fighting it?

Was it possible that life had more to give us than we could ever take for ourselves?

For every thing there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.