What you resist persists. And only what you look at, and own, can disappear. You make it disappear by simply changing your mind about it.
Interpretation
Resisting problems only makes them worse; acceptance and change in mindset can lead to resolution.
This quote by Neale Donald Walsch emphasizes the importance of accepting and acknowledging our challenges rather than fighting against them. By recognizing and owning our issues, we can change our perspective and ultimately pave the way for their resolution. The act of acceptance allows us to let go of resistance, which often prolongs our struggles.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
What you hope, you will eventually believe. _x000D_ What you believe you will eventually know. What you know, you will eventually create. What you create, _x000D_ you will eventually experience. What you experience, _x000D_ you will eventually express. What you express, _x000D_ you will eventually become. _x000D_ This is the formula for all of life.
Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.
Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.
Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.
When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.
Giving up is not the answer. Neither is giving in. Stand your ground. There is a way of doing that without having to be combative. There is a way of hanging on to your true self, and demonstrating it, without resorting to aggression. But giving up and giving in is not the way. Simply and quietly claiming your right to be You is the way.
Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?
Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and now: What is the source of religious authority? For the Christian the question takes more specific form: What is the relation between the authority of ones own experience and that claimed for the scriptures, the ritual and the clergy?
No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.
I have tried in my way to be free.
The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.
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