Resistance Quotes - Page 34

• Through its influence upon the unconscious, music can have a specific healing effect. It can help in eliminating repressions and resistances, and it can bring into the field of waking consciousness many drives, emotions and complexes which were creating difficulties in the unconscious.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Healing, Creating, Fields

  Roberto Assagioli (2000). “Psychosynthesis: a collection of basic writings”, Synthesis Center

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• To make the quickest progress, you don't have to take huge leaps. You just have to take baby steps-and keep on taking them. In Japan, they call this approach kaizen, which literally translates as 'continual improvement.' Using kaizen, great and lasting success is achieved through small, consistent steps. It turns out that slow and steady is the best way to overcome your resistance to change.

  Marci Shimoff

  Baby, Japan, Progress

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• Expect resistance but pray for miracles!

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Miracle, Praying

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• Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.

  Steven Pressfield

  Writing, Night, Entrepreneur

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.20, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Hurt, Phrases, Stories

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• Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.

  Ali Vincent

  Goal, Agents, Action

  Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.128, Rodale

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• Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is so immediate that most of what we call pain is actually our experience of resistance to that phenomenon. And the resistance is usually a good deal more painful than the original sensation.

  Stephen Levine

  Pain, Essence, Suffering

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• The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, One Direction, Skills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.283, University of Georgia Press

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• Resistance to oppression is second nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Oppression

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• It is not love that is to blame. But each of us has resistance to the very love we desire. We also have resistance to the space and independence we need. So we go back and forth, not letting ourselves have one or the other. It all boils down to this: Are you willing to have your relationships be a pathway to fully revealing yourself and your potential? If you answer is Yes, real intimacy can be yours on a daily basis.

  Gay Hendricks

  Real, Space, Independence

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• It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Struggle, Identity, Cost

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.62, New World Library

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• We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Kings, Divine Right

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a WriterÕs Week”, p.115, Small Beer Press

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• It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Creating, Suffering, Looks

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.221, New World Library

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• Aikido is the principle of non-resistance. Because it is non-resistant, it is victorious from the beginning. Those with evil intentions or contentious thoughts are instantly vanquished. Aikido is invincible because it contends with nothing.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Evil, Aikido, Principles

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• History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Records, Adopted, Nations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.334, Grove Press

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• The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honest, Constructive, Programmes

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Atrocities, Violent

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• Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ethical Principles, Light, Passive Resistance

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

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• Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Satyagraha, Universal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Self, Passive Resistance

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

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• Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Party, Thinking

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Rights, Passive Resistance, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• Sometimes you're pushing and what you want to do is not coming with ease; doors are not opening. A lot of times we're pushing against resistance. If one looks closely, there is often a message in that resistance: "Wait a minute, maybe it's not what you're supposed to be doing."

  Farrah Gray

  Doors, Waiting, Looks

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• It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.

  B. J. Palmer

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• 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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Powerful, Reality, States

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