Quotes about Resistance

The ego fiercely protects its view of the world, and we've all experienced how wispy and fleeting any experience can be when it doesn't fit our ingrained belief system.

When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list.

The Big Snooze will do everything it can to stop you from changing and growing, especially since you're attempting to obliterate the very identity that you and everyone else has come to know as "you.

Doubt is resistance, faith is surrender. Worry is resistance, joy is surrender.

The people closest to you have the most to lose by losing you so they are the most resistant to you changing.

You forget you have a master here,'' says the tyrant. ''I'll demolish the first who puts me out of temper! I insist on perfect sobriety and silence. Oh, boy! was that you? Frances, darling, pull his hair as you go by; I heard him snap his fingers.'' 'Frances pulled his hair heartily;

You fight against that devil, for love, as long as you may; when the time comes, not all the angels in heaven shall save him!

Silence! said the ruffian. To the devil with your clamour!

The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.

The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.