586 Quotes About Surrender

It is your ego that needs to explain itself. The self just is.

It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, 'God, I just don't know anymore. If you're out there, I'm giving it all to you.' From there, after the surrender, he is allowing God himself, rather than theories, books, and documents, to take over and lead him into all truth.

Healthy surrender means allowing yourself to "be" rather than being in a constant state of want.

Two things happen at the same time: In inner world, your soul starts surrendering to the supreme soul (Paramatma]. In outer world, a love affair starts between your body-mind and the rest of the universe. And the universe loves like no lover ever can.

Flowers, trees, rocks... All shapes in nature are beautiful. If you don't resist change and let universe shape your life, it will always be beautiful.

Surrendering to reality requires the highest degree of humility.

Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.

Joy is a characteristic of spiritual maturity and of surrender.

Without unreservedly surrendering myself to God, whatever place I might raise myself to remains nothing more than a step or possibly two off the hard basement floor of life, for of myself I can be utterly assured that I will never step out of the basement.