Liberation Is a Perpetual Act of Surrender

Liberation is a perpetual act of surrender.

It goes against our tendency for “self-preservation,” which will only surrender to that which proves stronger than it. However, this surrender to that which is strong is not true surrender; it is defeat.It requires nothing of us to “give in” to something when we are in its clutches. But to offer ourselves to something we perceive as less than us—this is a true act of power.

For consciousness to serve the body, for the rational mind to serve intuition, for the profound to agree to inhabit the profane, is such a true act of beauty.

The living inclusion and honoring of all becomes the foundation of our lives. Beauty then permeates. We realize that what was lacking was not inherent to the “lesser,” but the love that would enable us to see it was lacking.

A paradox is revealed: Self-preservation in the truest sense is only realized in self-offering; it is never through any form of renunciation, even the most lofty.