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“Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.”

BHAGAVAD GITA

After many months, you were finally able to surrender to the painful new realities of your illness. By no means had you been able to achieve total acceptance, yet on a day-to-day basis you had become quite skillful at the fine art of accommodation.

By trial and error, for example, you determined which of your favorite sports you would be able to continue without restriction and which you would have to give up. Similarly, after many enervating swings from one extreme to another, you were able to ration your energy in a balanced way. In short, when you finally understood and accepted your limitations; frustration gave way to the satisfying conviction that you could “live with this illness.”

Then, suddenly, a painful and debilitating new symptom pushed you back over the edge into despair. It was as if the rules of the game had been unilaterally and arbitrarily changed; you felt bewildered and betrayed.

Once more, it was necessary to surrender. This time, however, it took days instead of months. And now you’ve begun to believe, in a most positive way, that life is a series of surrenders through which we achieve transcendence.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

God never gives me more than I can handle.