"Whatever we strongly resist comes to us faster than what we strongly want."
-- Elizabeth Brenner
"Nothing about how you are is a problem until you resist it."
-- Cherie Huber
"And, incidentally, when you let go of your resistance, not only does the suffering diminish, but your ability to change the situation dramatically improves."
-- Ben Langley
"The truth that makes them free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."
-- Herbert Agar
"When faced with the choice between changing and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
"Resistance causes pain to persist and surrender causes pain to decrease."
-- Brad Blanton
"You scare yourself stuck, because what you resists persists."
-- Byron Katie
"When the energy of clarity takes the place of resistance, action flows freely and without effort."
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