The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

by Mickey A. Singer

It was now perfectly clear to me that all of these life experiences, including running a business at this level, were doing as much to free me spiritually as my years of solitary meditation. Just as Hercules used the flow of rivers to clean out the Augean stables, so the powerful flow of life was cleaning out whatever was left of me. I just kept letting go and practicing nonresistance, whether I liked what was happening or not.

Each of us actually believes that things should be the way we want them, instead of being the natural result of all the forces of creation.

My personal experience is that aligning one’s will with the natural forces unfolding around us leads to some surprisingly powerful results.

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