Natalie
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Natalie
To surrender is to relinquish the illusion of control, which initiates the death part of the death/rebirth process, which is the transition from the bondage of the womb-like Segregated State to the freedom of the ever-expanding Integrated State. No faith or belief is required to accomplish this act of surrender, only clear-seeing. When one begins
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Surrender
Surrender is when your ego, the independent acting part of you, brings its will to Spirit and gives permission and authority for Spirit to act. It's like stepping aside and allowing Spirit to take the lead in taking care of your body, mind, and responses to energies.
The scriptures give greatest importance to sacrifice to the higher power.
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To open ourselves to this grace, to this flow of truth, means that we have to step out of ourselves. We have to let go of the illusion that we are in control of our life. When we hand it over, we’ll find ourselves falling into grace, falling into this clarity and openness and love, falling right into the grace of awakening from separation, where we
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We’ve all felt moments of feeling pushed down or oppressed, but the kind of defeat that I’m talking about is a true surrender, a true opening, where we know that we don’t know where to go. In that sense, it’s a true prayer, and a true prayer is a very powerful thing. I often tell people, “When you speak a true prayer, you’d better watch out,
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At the moment of awakening, it literally feels like we’re being born again, or like something completely new and unexpected has shown up in our consciousness. It literally is a virgin birth—a birth not of duality, but a birth of nonduality, a birth of that which is far beyond all dualities.
Adyashanti • Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering
I was contemplating my spiritual life, and I suddenly had the impulse to pray. At that time, praying wasn’t something that I did very often, but somehow, I felt this impulse. I said to the universe, “Give me whatever is necessary for me to awaken. I don’t care what it takes. I don’t care if the rest of my life is one of ease, and I don’t care if
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But as you feel lit up from within, while everything feels absolutely enough and more… that’s when you clearly see how this extraordinary yet so profoundly human feeling breaks the cute Cupid’s mold. Because what simmers in you isn’t directed at anyone. It’s not yearning for anything.
It’s just sweet, delicious life, existing.
At the heights of the Greek culture, Eros was anything but safe. He was wild and alive.
This Eros is destabilizing god of desire. He is presented as youthful or ageless, but never as a baby. He is personification of a divine compulsion, a holy wildfire. And his powers are immense. He brings love-madness both to humans and the gods, overthrowing reason, dissolving boundaries, and shaking up the foundations of order.
This eros awakens you, unravels you from the inside, transforming you and every carefully laid plan.