True surrender is to love it all. Everything.

The mosquito. The ex-husband. The barking dog. The traffic. The weather. Even growing old. Especially growing old.

Plan a birthday extravaganza to celebrate every age you are. Release all your hostages. Be free of all you have built to protect you from the world. The secret isn’t to build a wider moat or to be a fiercer dragon or to build thicker walls or tougher skin. The secret is to believe at the deepest core of your being that your soul is unhurtable.

Because it is.