Everything had changed suddenly — the tone, the moral climate; you didn't know what to think, whom to listen to. As if all your life you had been led by the hand like a small child and suddenly you were on your own, you had to learn to walk by yourself. There was no one around, neither family nor people whose judgment you respected. At such a time you felt the need of committing yourself to something absolute — life or truth or beauty — of being ruled by it in place of the man-made rules that had been discarded. You needed to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that was now abolished and gone for good.

The soul that desires God to surrender himself to it entirely must surrender itself entirely to him without keeping anything for itself.

You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.

We must surrender our whole being to Christ Jesus, and cease to live any longer in ourselves, that He may become our life; that being dead, " our life may be hid with Christ in God."

Suffering is transcended by total surrender And the mind attains to nirvana. As one day all must be given up, Why not dedicate it now to universal happiness?

Resign your destiny to higher powers.

Somehow, with the passage of time, and the deadlines that life imposes, surrendering became the right thing to do.

Surrender can never be regarded as complete so long as the devotee wants this or that from the Lord. True surrender is the love of God for the sake of love and nothing else, not even for the sake of salvation. In other words, complete effacement of the ego is necessary to conquer destiny, whether you achieve this effacement through Self-enquiry or through bhakti marga.

somehow, with the passage of time, and the deadlines that life imposes, surrendering became the right thing to do

Surrender as you enter every hope you have!

Or you or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you.

If the life we live in this world is wholly for Christ, it is a life of daily surrender.

When there is total surrender, complete relinquishment of all concern with one’s past, present and future, with one’s physical and spiritual security and standing, a new life dawns, full of love and beauty; then the guru is not important, for the disciple has broken the shell of self-defense. Complete self-surrender is liberation by itself.

He who aspires to master the art of expression must first of all consecrate himself completely to some great cause.