Non-Surrender Hardens Your Psychological Form

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“Non-Surrender Hardens your Psychological Form, The Shell of the Ego, and creates a strong sense of separateness.”

Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now Journal

October 5, 2023

I seem to be engaged in a war with my ego. Surrendering does not come easy to me. From as far back as I can remember, I fought against anything that wasn’t working out as I wanted.

I have always seen that it’s my way or no way! The thought of having matters contrary to my way was not an option.

Some years back, I reached a fork in the road due to a few severe events in my life. As an afterthought, I realized I had two basic choices as I looked at the split in the road ahead.

The fork to the right had a signpost that read. “Continue as you are on this road – things will turn out fine.” The fork to the left read, “This is the road of change, rough but life-changing.”

Change is never comfortable. Change is a process that takes time to reveal its effects, and this does not happen overnight. Change takes place with each step that you take. (My life motto is Parvi Gradus Determinate – small, determined steps.)

Never lose sight of a fundamental issue. Change is not an option because the mechanism of the Universe is change. In the Universe, change functions naturally every nano-second. (seasons, day, night, life, and death, to name a few.)

For we humans, unlike the rest of creation, change is firstly a commitment, and it’s a journey with no destination – you keep changing step by step. The first step to change is to surrender to every requirement of the change process. If you do not surrender, your mind (the shell of the ego.) will separate you from the real you. (your authentic self.)

If you do not surrender, your mind will prevent you from changing. And then you leave the left fork and return to the right fork, where you become a slave to believing in the illusion that ‘things will turn out fine in the end.’

Things will turn out in the end; this is true because of your destiny, but at what price and why go to the expense?

 Eckhart Tolle