“Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. The only place where you can experience the flow of life is the now, so to surrender is to accept the present moment unconditionally and without reservation. It is to relinquish inner resistance to what is.” — Eckhart Tolle
“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.” — Julia Cameron
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.” –Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.” — Toni Morrison
The trick is to surrender to the Phlow!” — Trey Anastasio (frontman for the band Phish)
“Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.” –Bhagavad Gita
“I don’t know Who, or what, put the question, I don’t know when it was put. I don’t even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something, and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.” — Dag Hammarskjold
“We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.” –Raoul Vaneigem
“The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.” — Alan Redpath
“Prince Humperdink: Surrender! Wesley: You mean you wish to surrender to me? Very well, I accept.” — The Princess Bride
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