Our personality develops around our childhood experiences of separation and the work-arounds we discovered to make that more manageable. Over time, this becomes the primary track of our personality.

When true surrender actually happens, it feels very graceful. Like “you” are not “doing” anything.

Since surrendering fear and control is by definition being vulnerable, to deepen in ego relaxation we need a nonviolent inner atmosphere. “Dropping the knife” distills one of the most important cornerstones for relaxing into the ground of Grace: the need to disengage from judgment, be it projected or internalized.

To live into the promises of awakening, we must somehow turn the hard chunk of ice that is our ego fixation back into the fluid state of its origin.

When I say love, I mean the oceanic fullness that lies within the depth of our heart – that wants to open and connect with all that is real and meaningful in life; that healing presence that is naturally generous, compassionate and joyful; and most exquisite of all – wants to share it with another, with the world.