General statements on surrender

• Worry is the unwillingness to surrender. One can surrender in a split second. With humility and surrender one moves beyond duality.
• Surrender everything to God.

Specific statements on surrender

• Question: What is surrendering?
  Answer (Summary): Surrendering is letting go of resisting to what comes up. It is not the same as being stupid or blind (gullible). Be OK with either outcome. Withdraw intention from the matter. Surrender resisting. Surrender to God’s will. Sedona Satsang Q&A, 15. März 2006
• Question: How do I deal with surrendering my child who is on drugs?
  Answer: Surrender how you feel about your child using drugs. You don't know the full story. Therefore you don't know the karmic benefits of this life for your child. Your child may have to hit bottom before surrender happens. Seeing somebody you love suffer is in itself painful. You also need to surrender the pain and presume it is for the good. Sedona Satsang Q&A, 15. März 2006
• The ego says "If you surrender me to the field you become nothing". The truth is that if you surrender the ego, you become everything. Sedona Seminar Experiential Reality, 18. Februar 2006
• Joy, bliss, ecstasy, the high 500s, these higher states, have to be surrendered to God too, and then the peace that passeth understanding comes. Surrender everything to God, including these sublime states, transcend them. Chicago Seminar, 10. April 2004
• When you surrender everything to God, you can't have a say in the outcome. Do not look for a result, personal volition is removed, whatever God's will is, that's it. Tageseminar, 10. April 2004
• The way to God is constant surrender. Marietta, GA, Seminar, Unity North Atlanta Church, 24. April 2004
• When you surrender to God, you can be asked, if is it okay with you if you don’t become enlightened? If you answer 'yes', you’ve earned the right to become enlightened. Sedona Seminar Vision, bereit gestellt von Consciousnessproject.org, 26. Februar 2005
• Surrender has to do with the will. All spiritual work centers on the fulcrum of the will. It's only by the ascent of the will. It's by the ascent of the will that your karmic destiny is set and the calibrated level of consciousness is set. The two go together. It's only by the will. So surrender is the surrender of volition of will and trying to control. So the will that expresses itself in ordinary life is trying to control. And willpower is very weak. The will of the ego calibrates at exactly the same level as your personal level. […] Will with a capital W is the Will of God and when you surrender to God's Will that means you've removed your own resistance and positionalities and vanities. Now you've opened the door and the spiritual Will, the Will of God as you experience within, calibrates at 850. It will knock just about anything off the path. The personal will is insufficient to overcome even a bad habit. The Divine Will is enormously powerful. When you invite in Divine Will, then be prepared, because it may sweep people right out of your family situation; it may sweep you from one part of the country to another; it may change your health. You may go from wealth to poverty or vice versa. Sedona Seminar Surrender Will, April 2005
• There’s really only one thing you have to let go of. You don’t have to give up any particular negativity or positionality. You just have to give up the payoff, the juice. Could you? Of course — but would you? It’s then a matter of will, but not human will, which is only as strong as your level of consciousness. It's only by surrender; now it's spiritual, Divine will, which calibrates at 850. This work threatens the narcissistic core of the ego. Sedona Seminar Spiritual Traps, 15. Oktober 2005
• Out of an unrestricted love for God arises the willingness to surrender all motives except to serve God completely. I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 36
• Surrender to God […] means to surrender control and the secret satisfactions of the ego's positionalities. Turn only to love and to God as the source of life and joy. This choice is available in every instant. When finally chosen, the reward is great. By invitation, spiritual awareness illuminates the way. The key is willingness. I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 313-314
• To 'surrender to God' means to stop looking to the ego for solace and thrills and to discover the endless, serene joy of peace. I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 398
• Spiritual work is thus an endless surrendering, letting go, turning away from, withdrawing from, and ignoring that which is irrelevent and essentially unrewarding. The Eye of the I, S. 123
• When you surrender to the will of God, which calibrates at 850, the personal will can't match. Then, watch out. […] When you surrender to Divine Will, be prepared for whatever comes. Sedona Seminar Thought and Ideation, bereit gestellt von Consciousnessproject.org, 28. Februar 2004
• Surrender is a constant process of not resisting or clinging to the moment but instead continuously turning it over to God. I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 48
• To let go of the known for the unknown requires great commitment, willingness, and devotion to surrendering one's faith to God. The Eye of the I, S. 110
• Out of love and respect for God arises the willingness to surrender all […] prejudgments, and the humility that ensues opens the doors to the splendor of reality which is the revelation of the S(s)elf. The Eye of the I, S. 228
• I remember clearly the moment when the ego surrendered its dominion. The ego's juice is being the source of your life, the experience of being what it considers the center of your life. The ego can't surrender of its own. Once you've surrendered positionalities, you come to understand that you're no longer subject to personal karma, and the temptation arises to assume all power – all power is yours; own it. I thought, who the hell would want it? There's a you that was going to have the power. The power isn't with you, anyway. That which you are is the source of your own life. Seminar Sedona Alignment, bereit gestellt von Consciousnessproject.org, 16. April 2005
• Do you want to be bullet-proof? – If so, then surrender everything to God, the good, the bad, the ugly, regardless of what just surrender it all. Seminar in der Unity Church, Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA, Anfang 2000
• The core of the three great pathways of 'heart', 'mind', and 'action' is the process of surrender. I. Subjectivity and Reality, S. 37
  • Krishna said: The Yogas of love, knowledge, and work have been given by me to men for their highest good. Except for these there is no way to attain freedom. Srimad Bhagavatam, übersetzt von Prabhavananda, S. 264

The Process of Surrender

• Spiritual seekers know that the core of all pathways to God is surrender, but to what is not clear. Without a decisive technique, many seekers spend years surrendering on content and complain that they are no farther along than before. The mind goes right on with its endless production and, therefore, one cannot surrender content as fast as it is produced; it is a losing game.
  Next, one hears that it is not the content but attachments to the content that is the problem. This brings some relief but also brings the next question: How does one let go of attachments? It is necessary to examine to nature of an attachment. It is based on a belief and a desire. The belief is that a mental content will bring happiness and solve problems; therefore the attachment is to the implied promise that it is the thinking itself that is the road to happiness (wealth, success, love, etc.).
  To let go of the thinking therefore seems frightening because it is also seen as the main tool of survival; plus it is 'me'. As 'me', it is viewed as unique, personal, and precious, and it constitutes the main data base of identification of 'who I am'.
  The fear of loss of self-identity brings up resistance. As we get closer to the discovery of the source of the ego's tenacity, we make the amazing critical discovery that we are enamored with our self. I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 39-40
• The heart is more powerful than the mind. Therefore serious devotion is very powerful. Sedona Seminar Experiential Reality, 18. Februar 2006
• The core of devotion is humility and the willingness to surrender all belief systems and illusions of 'I know'. Discovery of the Presence of God, pg. 38
• There are two types of surrender

1. Surrender as attitude and
2. Surrender of specifics.
   Surrender as attitude is when you say “whatever will be will be”. You go with the flow, either way will be fine. See the positive in any outcome. Sedona Satsang Q&A, 13. September 2006

• Constantly surrendering your will to God allows you to notice the spontaneity of life without putting forth your own agenda. You pull back. You are the witness. You pull back from being in the middle of the drama to being the witness, to being the watcher, to being the whole context in which everything occurs. You make that a style, a way of being in the world. You are not doing. You are allowing. Yin. Sedona Satsang Q&A, 10. Mai 2006
• Spiritual commitment is energized by the alignment of the spiritual will (calibration level 850), with attributes of Divinity, which are truth, love, compassion, wisdom, and nonpartiality. Devotion prioritizes one's life and attracts that which is of assistance. To be a servant of God is a dedication whereby the goal takes precedence over all other positionalities, attractions, or distractions. By devotion and commitment, the pathway unfolds and revelation supplants presumptive cause-and-effect acquisition. It could be languaged that the dedication is quite 'Yang' by intent, but 'Yin' by fulfillment as a process.
  All actions become recontextualized, and their spiritual essence begins to shine through appearances. Devotion also expresses as selfless service whereby peeling the potatoes is no longer a chore but an act of love because it has been sanctified by intention. Discovery of the Presence of God, S. 35
• Devotion opens up vision, which replaces perception. Only by the surrender that accompanies devotion does intended action reveal itself to be a spontaneous unfolding of the evolution of Creation itself. Devotion to God replaces the ego's devotion to its own self-interest, and one witnesses the effects or consequences of the overall field. Discovery of the Presence of God, S. 36

Differentiation between surrender and sacrifice

• These are arbitrary terms which presume that one is looking at spiritual principles from the viewpoint of the ego's vested interests and justifications for negativity. To the ego, spiritual principles represent a possible loss of positionality, but from the viewpoint of spirit, they are gains.
  The primary surrenders and sacrifices have to do with the substitution of humility for vanity. In actual practice, one merely relinquishes the vanities of opinionation and judgementalism. The Eye of the I, S. 66