Hello and in today's

welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better

at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about total surrender.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle and together with the sound of the bells. else. So I'd like to start this episode with a passage by the teacher,

Christiana Murdy. He writes,

you are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total

surrender. It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out.

Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself.

I'm going to read that again and just notice what parts of it

resonate, stand out that you feel aversion to.

Let's see if we could hear it again.

You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up.

A complete and total surrender. It is a state of

hopelessness which says that there is no way out. Any movement in any direction on any dimension at any level is taking you away from

yourself.

Okay, so let's break this down because there is a lot here.

The first thing I want to address

is the word hopelessness here, which Christianerty is is pointing to as actually a gateway toward awakening.

And it's an interesting word because I've talked a lot about hopefulness on this

podcast and the importance of hopefulness, the importance of hopefulness in relationship to

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