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Surrender.
Surrender unconditionally to Now.
When I say this, I do not mean to "give up" or "give in" or "let them win" or anything like that.
There is no "them."
There is only You.
All you are ever seeing is You.
Everything appears for You.
If you would like to see this and to stop generating suffering for yourself, begin bringing Unconditional Acceptance to all situations.
Stop creating a story in your mind that says, "Life is not okay as it is. The world is not okay as it is. It needs to change."
Let go. Unclench the fist. Stop needing things to be 'this way' or 'that way.' Just let them be.
This is the true meaning of Surrender. True Surrender is True Freedom.
Many beings on Earth are deeply identified with an adversarial, antagonistic, "chip on my shoulder," "me against the world" energy.
There's nothing 'wrong' with this energy. It's perfect, like everything else.
It does tend to create a lot of suffering, though.
It's an arrogant energy that places me and my view and my cause and my opinion and my "problems" at the center of the universe.
Meanwhile, Life is as it is. All is well, and nothing needs to change.
Nothing can be fundamentally improved upon.
There are no enemies. There are no "problems."
Eventually, those in the adversarial mode of relating to life start to tire of the fight. The fight creates more and more suffering, and the soul becomes exhausted.
Little by little, a desire builds for something different: To remember what we are. To remember Peace and Home. To remember that All is Well.
This process of returning Home requires the surrender of the adversarial identity. This identity originally arose as a protective mechanism, yet it came with a cost. It increasingly generates alienation and suffering.
This is because it is not true. Anything other than Truth generates suffering.
This is why we feel better and better as we release the less-true layers on the path Home. We know we're getting closer to Truth because we feel better and lighter.
If you wish to return Home, begin holding your entire life in the Light of Neutral Loving Awareness.
Start letting go of all identities and beliefs and opinions, which are all simply arguments with God.
This is true Surrender.
It is not a coward's approach, it is the opposite: It requires immense courage to begin unlearning and letting go of everything we have ever known, to return to the simplicity of always accepting and trusting this now-moment exactly as it appears.
This is the path.
This is the true 'work.'
This is where the juice is.
This is what everyone is actually looking for:
Unconditional Surrender to NOW, which reveals NOW as Home.
All else is an argument with God, with your True Self, and will continue to generate suffering.
Happy New Year,
JB
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