To know the self directly, requires letting go of everything you take yourself to be.

To know reality directly, requires letting go of everything you thought reality to be.

To know God directly, is to know self and reality directly.

The greatest illuminator of reality, self, and God, is surrendering.

The greatest surrendering is the acceptance of all experiences, lacking preference for an outcome.

The greatest acceptance does not need to make explanations, labels, or distinction.

In needing not to expect an outcome and needing not to identify and explain, one becomes still and empty of assumption and projection.

In the empty stillness, depleted of projection or assumption, desire or aversion. All doubt is removed, all seeking is removed, all notion of excess and lack is dissolved.

It is as if self becomes between both something and nothing.

Never a constant thing as conditions are always creating change, so no thing remains the same.

Never nothing, as there is change and if there was nothing there would be no changes.

This emptiness then can be better understood not as nothing but as no-thing.

The only constant is change, to surrender to experience and it to accept it fully and abide in stillness is to be the emptiness in which change arises and ceases. To never resist that change is to be be truly brave and compassionate.

With acceptance one is compassionate as they welcome change and welcome all of experience with open embrace, not trying to define or analyze another into a label or container. But allowing themselves or itself to be exactly as they are without expecting something.

With this acceptance is also bravery, to strip yourself of all assumption, you are forced into confrontation with the unknown, and you do so willingly.

Fear may arise, but those who abide in the surrender know it will cease just as soon as it arose, their resolve is stronger then their reaction.