The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

by Mickey A. Singer

look to see what is being asked of you by the situation unfold...

What would you be doing if you weren’t being influenced by the reactions of like or dislike? Following that deeper guidance will take your life in a very different direction...

and it became the foundation of both my spiritual ...

are sitting on a tiny planet spinning through space, and they should be enjoying the journey.

I

was just along for the ride.

to practice silence.

One night I had a phenomenal,

lucid dream that had a profound effect on me.

I had to learn to surrender more, instead of struggling so much.

surrender to life’s flow, even if I couldn’t understand where it was taking me.

just relax inside instead of fighting with m...

my vow of acceptance

It was one of those rub-your-eyes-in-disbelief moments.

I decided I’d better go home and meditate a bit before responding.

was well trained to just calmly observe all these thoughts being created by the preference-driven mind.

if it’s down to a matter of preference—life wins.

I was not in charge, yet life continued to unfold as if it knew just what it was doing.

I began to offer everything I did up to the Universal Force.

How would I ever know what life was capable of doing if I was always in control?

So I took a breath, stood up, and just started speaking.

my life had taken me far from the field of economics,

an act of surrender to acquiesce to his wishes.

As it turned out, the finished document had an unexpected destiny of its own.

fitting tribute to the acts of surrender that brought it into this world.

By following the flow of life, instead of my own preferences, I was now a carpenter,

They were the result of my letting go of myself.

Through no effort of my own,

did not plan any sessions; I just let the energy give the talks.

guide me away from myself through service to others.

At first I thought we were having a fanciful conversation, until I realized she was dead serious.

It would take a few more years of learning to surrender

commitment to surrender to life’s flow,

prided myself on having no belongings,

On my new path to awakening, life was no longer an obstacle to my growth. Life was now the battlefield on which I was to remain conscious enough to willingly permit my old self to be stripped away.

But I surrendered, and once again life had something unexpected

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

The money just kept showing up the moment we needed it.

told them that as long as there was a single board left, we were not done.

Sitting in my mailbox was an envelope with two thousand dollars in cash.

The amazing part was not just that the money kept showing up exactly when we needed it—it

whose religion was the reality of the Infinite.

and I just about died when

This experiment in surrender was stealing my life.

life was not asking me—it was telling me.

I had tried as hard as I could to break

another way that did not have my mind as my sp...

I had resolved to surrender to life, and this is where life was taking me.

We never advertised and don’t even have signs that show the way.

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