I suspect the reason giving over, giving in, giving up has such a puny reputation is vindication for giving over, giving in, giving up, if done right, only has a guaranteed good impact within our own self. We don't get to parade it, humbly, for the benefit of others, so they may see, learn and admire. For the teaching to get admiration is an ego-victory goal...there is no God in that.
And who's kidding whom? Giving over, giving in, giving up means surrender, plain and simple. Which explains why we can't imagine that very word ever bringing an anticipatory smile to our lips or a gleeful "can't wait" to our mind.
The human condition being such as it is, most of us immediately go to the worst sense of the word surrender...loser. We then take it to the outside of enough...losing docilely to a maniacal killer or without a fight to a diabolical dictator loose on the world. That is how we avoid staying in the Now, the only time we will ever learn a spiritual lesson personally.
It is the discipline of each of us of our own self that leads eventually to world peace...we can't start trying to bring about peace in our time, i.e., Now while still hating Gertrude/Trump for being Gertrude/Trump. Or, for that matter, while justifying us for being us.
It is the change in each of us through still more spiritual growth that can and will bring a change in our world...and thus the slow but ever-widening change in the universe.
Thank you.
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