We live in a world obsessed with control. Control over careers, relationships, emotions - even the future. We measure success by how much we can “handle” and see surrender as weakness. Yet, in the ...

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Surrender is variously described as: abandoning self; accepting whatever comes your way; getting out of the way; giving up; laying down in someone's arms; obedience; oneness; renunciation; resignation ...

And yet, control is the greatest illusion. Pain intensifies not because of what happens, but because of our resistance to what is. We suffer more in our effort to control outcomes than in the outcomes ...