There are two ways of living. One is the way of conflict, the other is the way of surrender.
In conflict you feel that your will is different from the will of the Supreme Being.
In surrender you feel that you are a part of the whole, with no question of your will being different or apart. If you are aloof and apart, conflict is natural and inevitable. If you are one with the whole, surrender is natural.
Conflict brings tension, restlessness, worry, and anxiety. Surrender brings emptiness, peace, joy and finally the supreme knowledge.
The ego thrives on conflict and is destroyed in surrender. The worldly man is always in conflict. The disciple seeking the Truth gives up all struggles and surrenders himself.
If your tendency is to fight, if you are struggling even with God, if you are trying to enforce your own will – albeit through prayer or worship – you are not going to succeed.
When you have no desire of your own, then His wish is your wish; if you have no separate goal of your own, wherever He takes you is your destination.
When you are ready to move as He pleases, when you have no expectations of your own, when you make no decisions, then you cease swimming and begin to float.
Have you watched a hawk soaring high in the sky?
When it has flown to a sufficient height, it stretches its wings wide and floats in the air.
When your mind reaches that stage it is in a state of surrender.
You need no longer flap your wings, you merely float, weightless in His atmosphere.
For all weight is caused by conflict; it is born through resistance.
The more you fight the lower you fall. The more you abandon the fight, the lighter you become; and the lighter you are, the higher you will soar.
If you leave all conflict completely, you reach God’s heights, which signifies being free of all burden, weightless.
Ego is like a stone tied round your neck; the more you fight, the heavier it becomes.