The phrase "a state of surrender" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a condition or mindset where someone has given up control or is yielding to a situation.
Example: "After months of fighting against the inevitable, she finally found peace in a state of surrender."
Alternatives: "a condition of yielding" or "a mindset of capitulation."
Machines are either out to eliminate us (Skynet from Terminator 2, Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey), or to hoodwink us into a state of surrender (the simulated world of The Matrix, the pampered couch potatoes of WALL-E).
I do not live my life in a state of surrender all of the time, but my intention is to continue to let go of my preoccupation with myself -- looking good and getting it right -- and to wake up more and more fully to the awareness of myself as love.
A struggle of resilience―-but resilience, in this situation, was a state of loss, surrender and ultimately ruin.
As Powell continued, I began to experience a state of blissful surrender: my decision had already been made, and I would remain standing as long as he spoke; the duration of my protest thus depended on him.
But central to mystical life is the understanding of spiritual or mystical poverty, a state of inner emptiness or surrender, of offering oneself completely.
Perhaps because of the lazy sentimentality and cheap cynicism that flood the multiplexes these days, there is a tendency to think of love as a state of soft-headed, weak-hearted surrender, and to identify friendship with a nervous, deferential reluctance to give offense.
It is our natural state of inner surrender, a state of service to God.
This state of surrender, the state of active acceptance, is a very high state of awareness.
And in this state of surrender, we finally open up to receive all the Universe has to offer.
The government assumed control over the capital, declared a state of emergency, and called for the surrender of private weapons.
This is not an excuse to surrender to a state of apathy but, instead, an invitation to rise to the challenge of exploring new ways of understanding the world.
