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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 help from
anyone, 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 also
may come in the form of shifting circumstances — the small miracles that
we call grace.
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