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.
Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.
Gaza has 1. 2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.
Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.
Violence is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation. Violence is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers.
Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything.
When resistance is gone, the demons are gone.
I would like to trust and believe that the American spirit of resistance will win the day, but I keep having to be this downer Cassandra person in saying that without dismantling this horrific legislative apparatus that has basically given George W. Bush dictatorial power, the spirit of America is not enough. We have to have that spirit, but we have to have tactics and strategies and a movement and a victory.
True resistance begins with people confronting pain. . . and wanting to do something to change it.
I've never been one to say I know exactly that we're in the last days, but there's some things happening these days, both good and bad, that make me wonder if we may be heading into the final generation. One of the good things that's happening is that little by little we're taking the gospel to the whole world. But at the same time there is this resistance.
Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.
So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.
Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.
In no country and under no circumstances is it possible to launch resistance unless the government approves of this.
I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .
Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.
Paralyze resistance with persistence.
The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.
If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.