The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

by Mickey A. Singer

Since most of us only feel good when things are going our way, we are constantly attempting to control everything in our lives.

is it really reasonable for us to assume that nothing good will happen unless we force it to?

leaping into life to live in a place where we are no longer controlled by our personal fears and desires.

I began to long for silence inside.

I wanted to quiet my mind, and social activities didn’t help.

Nothing seemed to work. I found that I could change the topic it talked about, but I could not get it to just stop talking for any length of time.

Why does the voice have to tell me that I see it and how I feel about it?

definitely easier to let go of him when he was in pieces.

I didn’t want to regain strength based on another mental concept of myself.

every day he fought back less and less. The noisy, demanding personal part of me didn’t

go away—he just began to resign himself to the intense discipline.

The rules of the experiment were very simple: If life brought events in front of me, I would treat them as if they came to take me beyond myself.

What I discovered was that it was simply the fear of failing in the eyes of others.

The psyche is a person with feelings and thoughts, hopes, fears, and dreams. He is not to be locked in a room and constantly told to shut up.

Donna Wagner

I simply put my whole heart into whatever I was doing.

Do whatever is put in front of you with all your heart and soul without regard for personal results. Do the work as though it were given to you by the universe itself—because it was.

Everything I did, I did to the absolute best of my ability.

Challenging situations create the force needed to bring about change.

The only meaningful prayer is

that this white-hot fire be so destructive to

the personal self that it severs ...

b...

even very intense situations don’t have to leave psychological scars, if we are willing to process our changes at a deeper level.

I vowed to serve the company

I had watched life build, brick by brick, and

to use the money entrusted to...

that would help...

I simply kept letting go of whatever came up.

had spent all these years quieting down that mental voice, and I had learned that listening to it only fuels the fire.