An important clarification regarding the act of spiritual surrender: ...[A] very important mistake...if uncorrected...can lead to the assumption that surrender means to roll over and play dead, or that the purpose of this practice is to teach you to passively acquiesce to situations that are in fact intolerable. This is not so at all. There is a crucial distinction between surrender as an inner attitude and as an outer practice, and we are concerned only with the former here. From the point of view of inner work, the situation is very straightforward: Anything done in a state of interior bracing will throw you immediately into your small self, with its familiar repertoire of defense mechanisms. Surrender understood as an interior act will place you in alignment with magnetic center, the seat of your inner observer, through which Divine Being can flow to you. Once you are in right alignment, you can decide what you are going to do in the outer world. Sometimes this is acquiescence, sometimes it is a spirited fight. But whichever way, you will be doing it from consciousness, not reactivity. - Cynthia Bourgeault, Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening (p. 146).
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:03:40 +0000
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