“What you are welcoming is never an outer situation, only the feelings and sensations working within you in the moment. “This moment can always be endured,” the well-known contemporary spiritual writer Gerald May reminds us, and the act of welcoming roots us firmly in the now. Once we have endured and integrated what is on our plate internally, then what we do with the outer situation is for us to decide. Surrender means doing something out of the power of integrity, not knuckling under to coercion or abuse.”
–Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus, pg. 179
