What
is the difference, if any, between Surrender and Quitting?
From
where I'm sitting at the moment, there is a world of difference; they
could even be polar opposites. To surrender, as I see it, is to
engage creatively with what-is, as it is: to quit is to bale out on
what is, to avoid it, to disengage from it and hope it will leave you alone. Quitting leaves you feeling like a victim; Surrender hands you
some power and author-ity in the matter. Surrender is a letting-go of
the feelings that tag on to the mind-set you're entertaining. Putting
the feelings to one side, you look at that mindset from a different
perspective. From this viewpoint, minus the familiar feelings that
have always kept you trapped in this place, you don't take the
situation so personally.
In
surrender the “person” you have imagined yourself to be – the
person you get spooked by in the full-length bathroom mirror – has
to loosen, and eventually give up its tightly held grip on its belief
systems and their supporting feelings. This, to me, is a way to
Freedom. Freedom the see more clearly, freedom to make choices, and
freedom to act more flexibly.
The
doorway to Freedom is Surrender? Hm-mm. No wonder so few people go
through it. Most would rather quit and seek the company of other
Victims in the Prison Common Room.
It's
over to you. Will you go the way of most, or are you going to be
different? To change your life for the better, you have to see
different, know different and do different. That takes courage. Do
you
have the bottle to Surrender?
[Surrender
– Kasey Chambers (A) – 3:56]
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