Mike Gordon Quotes

Surrender is working with what happens.

When I try to go with what's happening and embrace that as much as I can, it seems to be a much smoother journey for me.

Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.

There is nothing in life I would want to control. I love the way nature has given a flow to everything and would love to go with the flow.

One must be able to let things happen.

Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.

Life? You can't manipulate it or bend it to your will. You have no choice but to roll with it.

You can't ever force anything, and you have to deal with what comes to you as it comes.

I think, in life, the more you force things, they break. You just let things happen.

When the universe throws something your way, or things happen, I'm one of those people that goes with it, and I don't fight it.

Joy is in learning to say yes to what is and to surrender into flow with what is, even when it's what you don't want.

You cannot have a desire to surrender because that's non-surrender. Surrender arises spontaneously sometimes in people who don't even have a word for it. And I know that openness is there in many people.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight... just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not trying to control consequences, but allowing them to happen... not even thinking about them. Let-go is in the present; consequences are tomorrow. And let-go is such a delightful experience, a total relaxation, a deep synchronicity with existence

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

Only the flow matters; live and let live, love and let love. There is no point in love.

Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.

Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.

I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.

As long as I focus on what I feel and don't worry about where I'm going, it works out. Having no expectations but being open to everything is what makes wonderful things happen. If I don't worry, there's no obstruction and life flows easily. It sounds impractical, but 'Expect nothing; be open to everything' is really all it is.