19 | Chapter 19 After Giving Your All: Entering Total Surrender
Chapter 19 | After Giving Your All: Entering Total Surrender
1. Does Constant Effort Guaranteed Success?
We have discussed the necessity of giving your all and treating every failed attempt as raw material for your ultimate success. But this raises a persistent question: Must I keep grinding and striving indefinitely for my success to finally manifest?
In the minds of most people, and within the pages of most success literature, there is a deeply rooted belief: My success comes from my relentless effort, my persistence, and my refusal to ever quit.
In that framework, "never give up" is defined as: I will keep working, keep scheming, and keep trying a thousand different ways until I naturally achieve success through the sheer force of my labor. But in reality, true success rarely happens in that state. Real breakthrough happens in Surrender.
This is a statement that is profoundly counter-intuitive, and it goes against almost everything taught in secular success coaching.
2. Effort Is Not the Core Cause of Success
The "never give up" logic of traditional success theory hides a flawed causal assumption: that effort itself is the key variable for success. The truth is quite the opposite.
If you look closely, you will find that all that striving and "giving it your all" didn't actually produce the success. Success typically emerges from a breakthrough that occurs after you have run out of options and reached your limit.
The core reason is this: Effort is not the essential driver of success. The true catalyst is Surrender.
In other words, all our planning, all our "all-out" effort, and all our gathering of "materials" aren't there to be traded directly for success. They exist so that once they have all failed, we can finally enter a state of Self-Abandonment. We are pushed to the point where we finally let go.
Only when we relinquish self-control—when we are truly at our wit's end—do we enter a genuine state of Submission.
3. All Effort Exists to Lead You Into Submission
In the previous chapters, we established that every exhaustive effort and every attempt provides the materials for a solution. Naturally, the question follows: How do I know when I’ve gathered enough material?
The answer is: When you reach the point of having no more moves left—when every plan you conceived has failed.
There are two layers of meaning here:
First: When the "materials" are fully prepared, you will naturally feel that you have exhausted your options. Your internal Spirit will signal to you that it is time to rest, time to let go. That feeling is the confirmation that your preparation is sufficient.
Second: Only when you have exhausted every plan, every ounce of strength, every resource, and every drop of effort will your Ego finally begin to loosen. Only then will you reach that state of being "at your wit's end." It is only at this threshold of exhaustion that the Ego chooses to stop playing God, allowing the real God to enter.
Why Is It Mandatory to Give Your All?
We must understand a vital principle: God can provide any material at any time, but He chooses to work through the materials you have prepared.
If you do nothing, He cannot deliver the result to you because that would violate the cosmic order He established. However, once you have acted, tried, and prepared the materials, He can use any of those materials to bring you the solution.
But you must loosen the Ego and clear the channel.
Notice the distinction: The solution is given to you; you don't "think it up" yourself.
Therefore, everything we called "effort" was essentially just preparing the stage for this solution. Our "giving it our all" was actually just a way to reach the point where we could finally abandon ourselves.
