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“Departure" Everyone wants to leave Those here want to go there, and many there are eager to return here… There are those who understood that living is not possible neither here nor there, so, you see them, in vain, searching for alternatives… Few have understood that the impossibility of living is a result of complicity not geography, that most of those who stay or depart never part ways with their complicity and tendency to surrender, thus, they recreate the circumstances and the causes of departure everywhere they go… Few have understood that all places will remain unlivable so long as the causes to depart are a result of a complicit and defeated Self… [Original poem published in Arabic on June 20, 2024 at ahewar.org]”

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Author:Louis Yako
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“Sometimes as Christians in the leading assignment God has given us, it’s so easy to be caught up in the form and fashion of being called 'called.' For some it causes a spirit of pride when God chooses you to create atmospheres of worship and then for others it may breed the feeling of doubt and fear to think am I even anointed to carry the weight and responsibility? I have been in a very uncomfortable place in my life in the last couple of months but yet, still expected to carry the oil of God and lead his people in a place of awareness of who He is. All while dealing with my own struggles and battles. But sometimes it takes moments of true surrendering for you to publicly align His will with your life and humble yourself and say, 'God, please come and do what you want to do!' My prayer is that as we continue to carry out the assignment for our lives, that we forever make room for God to move like He wants to. There’s a liberty in allowing Him to be God. It sets a precedence and a demand for His glory to really show itself in the midst of fear, doubt, and confusion!”

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Author:Micah Isaiah Davis
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“I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It is one of the [most] difficult of all... You see it's so immensely complicated. It needs real humility and at the same time, an absolute belief in one's own essential freedom. It is an act of faith. At the last moments, like all great acts, it is pure risk. This is true for me as a human being and as a writer. Dear Heaven, how hard it is to let go - to step into the blue. And yet one's creative life depends on it and one desires to do nothing else.”

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Book:Letters and Journals
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“The kingdom of God is an upside-down kingdom. It beckons us to gamble all, to trust radically, to come and die so that we might live--to give our lives away. Giving life away is a paradox. It's losing so we can win. It's giving so we can receive. It's risking for security. It's faith. The kingdom of God means living that tension.”

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Book:Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things
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“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.”

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Book:Walt Whitman's Camden conversations
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“BELONG God interrupts me now to say: My darling child, if you keep looking for a home within the arms of another, you will lose your home again and again. The same can be said of an actual home, by the way. Because everything that is given to you will eventually be taken back. That is the law, my dear. Nothing is here for you to keep. Even the ground beneath your feet can disappear. And so can your feet. God puts her hand now upon my trembling chest and says: You, my little one, have always shown a particular stubbornness. You demand permanence from things that cannot be made permanent, and perfection from people who are inherently flawed. This is typical of the anxious and the traumatized, but the impulse (like all doomed impulses) has never brought you the slightest bit of comfort or ease. That being the case, I wonder why you defend it so? God stops me fully in my path now and says: Child, you keep demanding impossible promises from those who cannot even take care of themselves. But what joy have you ever derived from being so dependent and unassured, so needy, lost, and afraid? You keep saying you want to count on somebody- but I say stop counting. You keep telling me you crave security because the world frightens you. But the world, my love, is what you are. Why not be secure in that? How could you ever lose anything, when you yourself are made of The Everything? You yourself, the bright and flickering moment of first creation. You yourself, the miraculous happening. You yourself, the very lifeblood of my being. God stops me once more to ask: Why do you keep disagreeing with me? Why do you keep up the fighting and begging? Why not befriend the great way of things, my little one? Why not accept the changing nature of nature itself? Why keep arguing against the comings an the goings, the births and the deaths, the gains and the losses? Why seek stability, when you are my song? Why not surrender? Why not belong?”

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Book:All the Way to the River
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“We look at our challenges—at our lessons—as things we master in order to achieve our goals. But the most important lessons in life sometimes have to do with what happens when we fail. How do we know when to surrender and walk away? How do we judge our own part in our failures? Is it something to learn from, or just bad luck? And how do we pick ourselves up again afterward?”

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Book:Leia: Princess of Alderaan
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“Ego serves me well when I surrender the need to be right, to win, feel superior or seek approval. Let me see past what might be called failings, achievement or status...so that I may know many hearts and love unconditionally.”

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Book:EARTH ANGELS – Edition #1: 13 Journeys of Triumph - Wisdom with Wings
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“It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity.”

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Author:Kamand Kojouri
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“Having drunk the dregs of Your Love, I am intoxicated beyond recognition. Now, I only pray for the nearness of You so I may advance in my annihilation.”

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Author:Kamand Kojouri
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“Surrender is the ultimate sign of strength and the foundation for a spiritual life. Surrendering affirms that we are no longer willing to live in pain. It expresses a deep desire to transcend our struggles and transform our negative emotions. It commands a life beyond our egos, beyond that part of ourselves that is continually reminding us that we are separate, different and alone. Surrendering allows us to return to our true nature and move effortlessly through the cosmic dance called life. It's a powerful statement that proclaims the perfect order of the universe. When you surrender your will, you are saying, "Even though things are not exactly how I'd like them to be, I will face my reality. I will look it directly in the eye and allow it to be here." Surrender and serenity are synonymous; you can't experience one without the other. So if it's serenity you're searching for, it's close by. All you have to do is resign as General Manager of the Universe. Choose to trust that there is a greater plan for you and that if you surrender, it will be unfolded in time. Surrender is a gift that you can give yourself. It's an act of faith. It's saying that even though I can't see where this river is flowing, I trust it will take me in the right direction.”

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Book:Spiritual Divorce: Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life
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