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"In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them."
"Sweet Spirit, grant us the faith to resist our resistance to Thee!"
"There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry."
"Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance."
"Procrastination is another form of resistance"
"The most powerful state for a human to be in is the state of embracing completely the reality of what is - Now. It is to say "Yes" to life, which is now and always now. There is a vast power in that "Yes," that state of inner non-resistance to what is."
"Resistance is the secret of joy!"
"He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power."
"But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id."
"All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here."
"Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life."
"The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme."
"... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal."
"Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance."
"The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around."
"Resistance is the first step to change."
"Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness."
"Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind."
"If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external events you cannot accept at all."
"Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process."
