The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

A great spiritual teacher once said, “Every day bite off more than you can chew, and chew it.” Life was teaching me some very important lessons.

the assertion of will was guided by what life was doing instead of what I wanted it to be doing.

natural forces unfolding around us leads to some surprisingly powerful results.

had to learn to channel those energies upward instead of pushing them

Following that deeper guidance will take your life in a very different

I could see how much fear of rejection and nonacceptance were being expressed through that mental dialogue.

was not doing anything to cause this shift. I was just there noticing that my sense of me no longer included the neurotic thought patterns that were passing in front of me.

In that one moment, the die had been cast. This great experiment in surrender had truly begun. I was no longer in charge of my life.

Driving to the exam, I had felt as though life was asking me to willingly let a part of me die that day. But now I realized that life was asking me to get out of the way and let her do her thing. I was so glad I had been willing to take that risk.