Take A Walk With Nick

Hi, folks. How you doing? I'm Nick, the poet, and welcome to take a walk with Nick. Maybe you want to take a walk around the block. Maybe you want to take a walk around the kitchen. Maybe you just want to hang out right where you're at. So I have some thoughts to share with you today. The thing about the mind is that when it's on the grind, it might never stop. So that's a poem that I wrote a long time ago. And then I have another one, too. It's all as good. In the neighborhood of your heart from the start.

And one of my favorite books is Michael Singer's untethered soul. And in this, he discusses the concepts of an open heart, letting go of inner barriers such as fear, anger, and attachment, and allowing emotions to flow without clinging to or suppressing them. By having an open heart, one can experience a deeper sense of inner peace, compassion, and connection with the world around them. So I have a video on the Cadre app, which has been doing well. It's called the art of surrender. So I thought I would expand on this topic of surrender and bring one of my favorite authors, Michael Singer, back into it.

So he has this book called the Surrender Experiment. And Singer's experiment was to relinquish his personal bias and preferences, instead embracing one, whatever life threw at him. So instead of judging situations as good or bad, he opted to accept everything with equanimity. Now, this act of surrender does not mean inaction or passivity, but rather, it requires an active trust and participation in the flow of life. And so I think, like any practice, this is not something that we can do perfectly, you know, by any stretch of the imagination.

But I think we can all practice, you know? You know, instead of instantly judging whether something is good or bad, just accepting it, you know, and just going with it, going with that flow, you know, why not just try it out with one thing in your life, you know? What would your surrender experiment look like? You know, might it be very comforting? Might it be very challenging? You know, might it be all of the above? And so now I just want to share ten surrender quotes with you from some of the experts.

And so here are some quotes on surrender. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. That's Julia Cameron, who is all about writing morning pages, waking up, writing for, you know, three pages, stream of consciousness. And the more that we try to control that creative process, you know, the more we might limit our options of creativity and different things that might come up in that experience. And now, next, we have the famous Carl Jung saying, what you resist persists. So Carl Jung says, what you resist persists.

So if we're fighting against those emotions, they might keep showing up. But if we accept them and say, hey, what's this trying to teach me? What's going on here? And I love to push my fears away, but what are they trying to tell us? What if we just accept them and listen to them? So what you resist persists. Carl Jung. Next up, we have surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to, rather than opposing the flow of life. That's Eckhart Tolle, who has some great books, the power of now a new earth, really, really good stuff.

And then Gabrielle Bernstein says, to surrender means to let go of control. It's an act of faith. Gabriel Bernstein, to surrender means to let go of control. It's an act of faith. And then Marianne Williamson says, the moment of surrender is not when life is over, it's when it begins. Marianne Williamson, so I would say even the moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins right now. You know, we can always make that choice, to surrender. And sometimes surrender means giving up, trying to understand and become comfortable with not knowing.

That's a big one. I always want to know. I want that certainty. But in life, we oftentimes don't have it, so we just have to accept. And it can be very exciting to live in that uncertainty when we accept it. And sometimes surrender means giving up, trying to understand. Oh, I'm reading the same one again. I'll jump to the next one. The greatness of a person's power is the measure of their surrender. WilliaM booth so, incidentally, the more that we surrender, the more power that we actually get. And then to surrender to what is.

Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be. Sonia Ricotti in surrender, you no longer need ego defenses and false masks. You become very simple, very real. Eckertoli again. Wouldn't it be fun to drop some of that ego? I know, my ego is always saying, nick, you need this, you need that. What if we can drop that for a little bit and then finally, surrender isn't about being passive. It's about being open. Luke, thank you so much. The beard game is strong. I'm closing with this quote. Surrender isn't about being passive.

It's about being open. So surrender doesn't mean that we have to give up. Surrender actually means we take new actions, you know? And so I just want you to think in your life today, what can you surrender why not try this surrender experiment that Michael Singer teaches us about? So that's what I have for you today. I'm wishing you a ton of peace, positivity and prosperity while all remembering that we have a lot of work to do. But we're going to do it together. Have an awesome day.