I understood that the disability and the wounds it had left me were like baggage that I dragged on a cart. I saw my body on the cart and had nothing to do but carry it. After all, if someone mocks what is on the cart, that is not my problem. My problem, my debt, my job is to carry the cart with love.

The philosopher Alexandre Jollien, having mentally traversed through various stages, now approaches the concept of surrender as a support in coping with his disability and as a life stance that redeems and liberates. I let go, relax, surrender, not because I have to, but because that is where the deeper contemplation of the self and the realization of the 'here and now' lead.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]