The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

by Mickey A. Singer

powerful flow of life was cleaning out whatever was left of me. I just kept letting go and practicing nonresistance, whether

We are not doing any of these things as conscious acts of will; they are all being done by the incomprehensible perfection of life itself.

If the natural unfolding of the process of life can create and take care of the entire universe, is it really reasonable for us to assume that nothing good will happen unless we force it to?

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?

Am I better off making up an alternate reality in my mind and then fighting with reality to make it be my way, or am I better off letting go of what I want and serving the same forces of reality that managed to create the entire perfection of the universe around me?

Things do NOT have to fall out of place to fall in place

“DO YOU OR DO YOU NOT WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS BEYOND YOU?”

I was gradually learning that life was not as fragile as that voice in my head would have me believe.

There were experiences to be had, but only if you were willing to have them.

I had clearly seen that it was this scared person inside of me who was holding me back from where I so desperately wanted to go. I needed to be free of him.

began to feel relieved, and the series of events that transpired next left an indelible impression on my mind to stop letting that scared person run my life.

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

meditation. I kept my personal self out of it completely and just let unbridled

My whole outer life had been ripped away from me in the blink of an eye. In its place I had been shown the beauty and peace of an inner state that was beyond anything I had ever imagined.

I 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.

Clearly, these were uncharted waters for me. Where would I end up? If my preferences were not leading me, what would happen to me? These questions did not scare me; they fascinated me. I didn’t want to be in charge of my life;

I had gone through most of my life thinking I knew what was good for me, but life itself seemed to know better.

I was willing to roll the dice and let the flow of life be in charge.

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Surrender—what an amazingly powerful word. It often engenders the thought of weakness and cowardice. In my case, it required all the strength I had to be brave enough to follow the invisible into the unknown.

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 front of you.

Nah sandy got me fucked up!

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What is important from all this is that if I had listened to my own mind, none of this would have happened.

Damn

I was becoming surrounded by a life that had been built for me, not by me. In my wildest dreams, however, I could never have imagined where this was going to lead me.

life knew better, and she was starting to guide me away from myself through service to others.

Fortunately, by now I had become pretty experienced at ignoring what “I” wanted and, instead, following the flow of life.

It seems as though life knew exactly what it was doing, and as usual, my mind knew nothing.

the Universal Plan was always much more expansive than my mind could imagine.

Every time I sat down at the computer to work on the program, I took a breath and remembered that I was writing this as a gift to the universe.

learned to so deeply honor the flow of life.

Yes

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So I did what I always did—worked even harder and waited for the flow of life to do its thing.

I need to connect to whats around me to lead me forward