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What happens when effort is exhausted?

When you exhaust all effort and surrender to rest, the very thing you seek arrives effortlessly. In the space of non-doing, allow life to unfold without force.

— Osho
According to Osho, when all effort is spent and you drop the struggle—saying ‘to hell with trying’ and simply resting—the very thing you sought (like sleep) arrives on its own. Exhaustion of effort ushers in a natural surrender; only then does the state happen. The second step is non-doing: allow, don’t force—otherwise it doesn’t occur.

Stop trying so hard and relax; then what you want (like sleep) comes by itself.

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