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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.

The Belief That You Have No Choice But To Keep Suffering Through Whatever Frightens You Is Like Believing You Have To Hold Onto A Scalding Cup So That You Won't Spill Your Coffee!

Trying To Change Ourselves In Order To Please Others - So That We Can Feel Temporarily Whole For Having Won Their Approval - Is Like Cutting A Flower Into Pieces So That It Will Fit Into A Vase.

The Only World In Which "defeat" Exists As A Reality Is The One Darkened By The False Idea That What May Have Happened To Us A Moment Ago Is The Same As What's Possible For Us To Achieve Now.

Our Greatest Strength Isn't Our Ability To Imagine Brighter Days Ahead, It Is That We Are Empowered-in Every Present Moment-to Effortlessly Dismiss Any Dark Thought Or Feeling That, Left Unattended, Diminishes Our Happiness.