yield up
Verb
Meaning
surrender, as a result of pressure or force
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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Between the fine point of the brush and the steely gaze, the scene is about to yield up its volume.
Or you or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you.
He That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it, And, at the best, shows but a bastard valour. This life's a fort committed to my trust, Which I must not yield up till it be forc'd. -Nor will I. He's not valiant that dares die, But he that boldly bears calamity.
The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.
Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.