No authentic spiritual path is about surrender or acquisition. It's all about transcendence. But transcendence and what it really implies is little understood in the modern world. Our collective spiritual IQ is very low.
Much of the mystical literature that deals with transcendence is not well understood. Language cannot convey it adequately insofar as language is tied to the imagination (S., manas) or the six sense.
Right now we are like a video game player passionately attached to our avatar body in a simulation world—even our death and what comes after it is in the simulation world.
Nor should we expect to meet the transcendent based on our all-too-human consciousness. This consciousness has to be transcended which is little more than dichotomous knowing (S., vijñāna) in which we are stuck in a dual mode of perceiver and perceiving.
Human consciousness (S., vijñāna) is something like the main culprit who makes our senses and their objects seem so real. But at some level in our consciousness we're still holding out that the transcendent is something we can perceive or will perceive in the future. It doesn't work that way not at least in Buddhism.