The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

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

What would happen to me if I just inwardly surrendered my resistance and let the flow of life be in charge?

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.

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.

This entire process of “becoming aware” was practically instantaneous.

What Three Pillars of Zen had to say was very clear and unequivocal. It said to stop reading, talking, and thinking about your mind, and just do the work necessary to quiet it down. The required work was equally unambiguous—meditate.

had passed the real test—I had proven that I was capable of deeply surrendering if life presented me with something I really did not want to do.

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

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