Surrendering to the Flow Quotes

Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.

I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life.

Surrender means accepting this moment, this body, and this life with open arms. Surrender involves getting out of your own way and living in accord with a higher will, expressed as the wisdom of the heart. Far more than passive acceptance, surrender uses every challenge as a means of spiritual growth and expanded awareness.

When you are not the doer how can the attachment happen? You do a small thing and you become attached. You say, "I have done this." You would like everybody to know that you have done this and you have done that. This ego is the barrier for the supreme understanding. Drop the doer and let things happen. That's what Tilopa means by being loose and natural.

Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.

We must learn to let the flow manifest itself where it will.....not where we will it.

Don't push the river. Just go with it.

Leave life alone. Let it be.

Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.

You have to trust the journey. That has become my motto for years: trust the journey. Because in the end, we're all kind of fearful. We all have fears and insecurities and ups and downs.

I don't thrive on control. I'm not looking for control. I think I get better results when I don't control things.

Everything that we want is downstream... And you don't have even have to turn the boat and paddle downstream, just let go of the oars, the current will carry you.