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Day: January 30, 2023

Surrender: Insight and Experience

On January 30, 2023February 8, 2023 By Via PerennisIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

I have struggled with the notion of spiritual surrender for years. My results attempting surrender in prayer and meditation have been barren for a long time. I have not understood it, though I've read much by many of my spiritual guides about what it entails. I've been too much in the mind, and influenced by …

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...[T]he art of life is more like navigation than warfare, for what is important is to understand the winds, the tides, the currents, the seasons, and the principles of growth and decay, so that one's actions may use them and not fight them.

Tao: The Watercourse Way, Alan Watts with Al Chung-liang Huang

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