And on the other hand, such a real simplification of the self's life as is here demanded--uniting on one object, the intellect, will and feeling too often split among contradictory attractions--is itself productive of inner harmony and increased power: productive too of that noble endurance which counts no pain too much in the service of Reality.
Here then we come to the fact, valid for every level of spiritual life, which lies behind all the declarations concerning surrender, self-loss, dying to live, dedication, made by writers on this theme.

All involve a relaxing of tension, letting ourselves go without reluctance in the direction in which we are most profoundly drawn; a cessation of our struggles with the tide, our kicks against the pricks that spur us on.
The inward aim of the self is towards unification with a larger life; a mergence with Reality which it may describe under various contradictory symbols, or may not be able to describe at all, but which it feels to be the fulfilment of existence.

It has learnt--though this knowledge may not have passed beyond the stage of feeling--that the universe is one simple texture, in which all things have their explanation and their place.

Combing out the confusions which enmesh it, losing its sham and separate life and finding its true life there, it will know what to love and how to act.

The goal of this process, which has been called entrance into the freedom of the Will of God, is the state described by the writer of the "German Theology" when he said "I would fain be to the Eternal Goodness what his own hand is to a man."[145] For such a declaration not only means a willed and skilful working for God, a practical siding with Perfection, becoming its living tool, but also close union with, and sharing of, the vital energy of the spiritual order: a feeding on and using of its power, its very life blood; complete docility to its inward direction, abolition of separate desire.
The surrender is therefore made not in order that we may become limp pietists, but in order that we may receive more energy and do better work: by a humble self-subjection more perfectly helping forward the thrust of the Spirit and the primal human business of incarnating the Eternal here and now.