Surrender

"All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling"...(Blaise Pascal). I stumbled on a U2 song tonight that I had never heard before. It is a truly moving song about an awakening of sorts. He talks about having lost himself and needing to surrender to find himself again. It is through our darkest times and through our pain that we begin to find our way back to us. It could also be related to spirituality as well and surrendering to god. He also speaks of hope...hoping that love believes in him. Hope, faith, trust and letting go are essential in becoming all that we are meant to be. When we fight the process, staying mired down in stagnation and confusion, more pain is certainly to follow. I found some beautiful quotes about surrender which portray the essential necessity sometimes in life to let go of the facades, of fear, of control to allow destiny to reveal itself. "A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender"...(Thomas Browne). "A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action"...(David Seabury). "All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take"...(Mohandas Gandhi). "Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them"...(Franz Marc). "Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual"...(Octavio Paz). I especially like the last quote because it ties into my continued theme that giving love is an unselfish act, a gift you give someone...but in relationships, both people have to give that to each other, otherwise the relationship will not succeed. Like anything in life, one must heed the signs of when it is time to surrender to your deepest feelings and no longer allow self punishment, fear or other people stop you from following your heart. Many people will offer their fear based advise, but often they have not been following their hearts as well. I will never forget the moment I surrendered to letting go of my own inner critic, the part of me that had been dictating my decisions and allowing other peoples perceptions to influence me. The healthy me had been screaming to be unleashed.....and once I surrendered, I began to emerge again, stronger than ever. I had to surrender to trust the inner me, as irrational as it felt. I ultimately had to honor the unseen. As the line says in the song~ "vision over visibility," meaning surrendering to one's inner truth. One should never surrender one's dreams however, for that is the fruit of life....our unconscious and conscious longings which offer us the opportunity to attract everything we desire. It all goes back to feelings. Surrender to allowing your hopes and dreams to ignite a fire within you. Allow your feelings to reveal to you, your deepest yearnings for a passion filled life and you will see too, that life can offer so much amazement if you surrender to the process.



Moment Of Surrender lyrics: U2

I tied myself with wire
To let the horses roam free
Playing with the fire
Until the fire played with me

The stone was semi-precious
We were barely conscious
Two souls too smart to be
In the realm of certainty
Even on our wedding day

We set ourselves on fire
Oh God, do not deny her
It’s not if I believe in love
If love believes in me
Oh, believe in me

At the moment of surrender
I folded to my knees
I did not notice the passers-by
And they did not notice me

I’ve been in every black hole
At the altar of the dark star
My body’s now a begging bowl
That’s begging to get back, begging to get back
To my heart
To the rhythm of my soul
To the rhythm of my unconsciousness
To the rhythm that yearns
To be released from control

I was punching in the numbers at the ATM machine
I could see in the reflection
A face staring back at me
At the moment of surrender
Of vision over visibility
I did not notice the passers-by
And they did not notice me

I was speeding on the subway
Through the stations of the cross
Every eye looking every other way
Counting down ’til the pain would stop

At the moment of surrender
Of vision over visibility
I did not notice the passers-by
And they did not notice me