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Surrender should be seen as a great strength and comes when we let go
of trying to attain the impossible. Most of us were raised and live in a
culture that emphasizes the ideals of independence and control. The general
idea is that we are on our own and we don’t need any help from anyone else,
and if we are really successful it’s because we are in complete control.
However, true lasting success comes only with surrender, which is the
opposite of control. We cannot accomplish anything truly great on our own,
without any help, and the idea that we can is an illusion that causes most of
us a great deal of suffering. Surrender comes when we see that illusion and
let go of trying to attain the impossible. Surrender can then be seen as a
great strength rather than a weakness. Even small moments of surrender are
powerful indicators of how different our lives could be if we would only let
go. We’ve all had the experience of extending huge amounts of effort and
energy to reach a particular goal only to realize that we can’t make it
happen after all. At the moment of letting go, realizing that we need to ask
for help or simply release our agenda entirely, a profound feeling of relief
may rush over us. This warm, open sensation is the essence of surrender, and
if we didn’t feel that we didn’t really let go. But it is never too late to
let go, even of things in the past that didn’t work out the way we wanted
them to, because surrender is always an option in every moment of our lives. When we finally do surrender, our goals
actually become possible, because the act of surrender is, in essence, asking
for the help we need. This help may come in the form of other human beings or
unseen helpers such as angels or inner guides. It may also come in the form
of shifting circumstances, the small miracles that we call grace. |
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