not my will but thine be done

"Not my will but thine be done." What does this mean, this prayer that is not only Christian but also Taoist, Buddhist, Islamist, Judaic, Vedic? How can you surrender to the will, to the influence of your Source? You know how not -- to be crusty, self-reflective, self-absorbed, to dummy down into a small and dense container, to go through each day with a continuous taking of "selfies," a poser of self-disgust mixed with self-admiration.

How can you allow the Source That Births Us to have Its will be done? Why should you even want to? You may awaken to the understanding that you do not know what you are doing, that your actions, including your very thoughts, have far-reaching consequences of which you are not aware. A higher wisdom has birthed you, continues birthing you with the unfolding of each nanosecond. Yet this wisdom is constrained by your obtuseness, by your unpreparedness to receive, by your undeveloped capaciousness. Water takes the shape of its cup and can fill the cup only to the cup's capacity.

The way you live according to the Higher Wisdom rather than to your short-sighted fumbling is through first of all, recognizing that it is possible; secondly, to want to; and thirdly, to develop the capaciousness, the room for this to happen. You do not have to join a religion to do this. It is a direct encounter between you and your Source.