“I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?”

“We do not make mistakes. Surrender at once! Resistance is fertile!""Don't you mean futile?""...That's what I said! Surrender or die!”

“But even them, my pains, I understand ill. That must come from my not being all pain and nothing else. There's the rub. Then they recede, or I, till they fill me with amaze and wonder, seen from a better planet. Not often, but I ask no more. Catch-cony life! To be nothing but pain, how that would simplify matters! Omnidolent! Impious dream.”

“All stress comes from resisting what is.”

“ Surrender is not giving up, far from it. Surrender takes an enormous amount of courage. Often we are only capable of doing so when the pain of trying to control the outcome becomes too much to bear. ”

“Food is the best substitute for everything, because it does not put up any resistance, but surrenders instantly.”