Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender

The pressure seeks relief, and so external events only trigger what we have been holding down, both consciously and unconsciously.

We have become afraid of our inner feelings because they hold such a massive amount of negativity that we fear we would be overwhelmed by it if we were to take a deeper look.

It is the accumulated pressure of feelings that causes thoughts. One feeling, for instance, can create literally

When we see the innocence in everyone, we can truly fulfill “loving our neighbor as ourselves,” and, thus, letting go has allowed us to reach a lofty goal without even the conscious attempt to do so.

We had mistakenly equated ourselves with the outer phenomena of our hectic life—the body and its experiences, the obligations, the jobs, the titles, the activities, the problems, and the feelings. But now we realize that we are the timeless space in which the phenomena are happening. We are not the flickering images playing out their drama on the m

Until the underlying emotion is surrendered, the thoughts will be engendered endlessly.

We can see that everybody who violates the law of Love is really a victim of some societal belief system or the pressures of the time.

By the time he got through the letting go process, he was totally surrendered on wearing the shirt. He knew he was totally surrendered, because it was okay if they noticed the new shirt, and it was okay if they didn’t. That day was suddenly like new shirt day! Almost every person he met commented on the new shirt, asked him where he had gotten it,

Eventually it will be seen that all thoughts are resistance. They are all images that the mind has made to prevent us from experiencing what actually is. When we have been letting go for a while

The feeling state of apathy is associated with the belief, “I can’t.” The mind doesn’t like to hear it, but in reality most “I can’ts” are “I won’ts.” The reason the mind doesn’t want to hear this is because “I can’t” is a cover-up for other feelings. These feelings can be brought to awareness by posing the hypothetical question to oneself, “Is it