The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

by Mickey A. Singer

This battle between individual will and the reality of life unfolding around us ends up consuming our lives.

When we win the battle, we are happy and relaxed; when we don’t, we are disturbed and stressed.

Since most of us only feel good when things are going our way, we are constantly attempting to con...

The question is, does it have to be this way? There is so much evidence that life do...

If life can manifest the DNA molecule on its own, not to mention create the human brain, how is it that we feel that we have to control everything on our own?

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?

Surrender—what an amazingly powerful word. It often engenders the thought of weakness and cowardice.

By surrendering the hold those powerful forces had on me, I was allowing my life to be guided by a much more powerful force, life itself. 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.

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.

Perhaps change only takes place when there is sufficient reason to overcome the inertia of everyday life. Challenging situations create the force needed to bring about change. The problem is that we generally use all the stirred-up energy intended to bring about change, to resist change.

The most powerful and sobering quote for me in this book