Wenn einem etwas nicht gefällt, liegt das am Widerstand. Und wenn dieser Widerstand losgelassen wird, wird er durch Gefühle von Stärke, Zutrauen und Freude ersetzt. OUDas All-sehende Auge, S. 214
Zitate (engl.) von D. Hawkins zum Thema Widerstand / Resistance
Resistance to change or growth is considerable. Most people would rather die than alter those belief systems that confine them to lower levels of consciousness. Power vs. Force, pg. 235
A great resistance of the ego is the wish to control and derive pleasure from the ego's payoffs. Therefore, the ego creates resistances in the form of fears, including expectations of discomfort, loss from change, or fear of failure. These, however, represent spiritual pride, which also needs to be surrendered. It is an egoistic vanity to presume that Divinity is either pleased, not pleased, or disappointed with human frailties and proclivities. Transcending Levels of Consciousness, chapter 21
Spiritual evolution is the automatic consequence of watching the mind from the general viewpoint of context rather then content. Instead of trying to force change, it is merely necessary to allow divinity to do so by deeply surrendering all control, resistance, and illusions of gain or loss. It is not necessary to attack illusions but to merely allow them to fall away. It is not necessary, nor fruitful to use force by such mechanisms as guilt, nor is it necessary to try to pursue or propel spiritual evolution because it automatically evolves of it's own accord when the obstacles and resistances of illusions are surrendered. Transcending Levels of Consciousness, chapter 21
Spiritual research indicates that all suffering and emotional pain results from resistance. Its cure is via surrender and acceptance. Transcending Levels of Consciousness, S. 94
Question: If all experience arises from resistance, then how is walking in the woods resistance? Answer: You're seeing the wood from a specific locality called I or myself. When that disappears the experiencing is not from a specific locality but more like a generality as tho you are the woods. […] It's a very high state to go into, a state of peace, and the witnessing seems to happen on its own. The sense of a personal I disappears, and the phenomena are occuring spontaneously on their own without any reference to a specific perceiver. Question: So is all experience is due to resistance? Answer: One can witness without experiencing. Question: But what's the resistance? Answer: In ordinary life negative feelings are due to resistance, and by relinquishing the thought in ordinary life you disappear it as an experiental phenomenon. […] For example let's say there's a baby crying in the back of the bus, and it's annoying you. As long as you resist it the baby's gonna keep annoying you. When you suddenly relent to it it just melds in with the rest of the noise in the bus and doesn't bother you any more. Question: Okay. So you're talking about surrendering? Answer: Letting go of resisting. Its most phenomenal use is letting go of negative things when you got a problem. Audio-Interview, Webradiosender Beyond the Ordinary, 14. September 2004
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the life of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and those ripples, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy, build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Robert F. Kennedy
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation. – These are the inherent qualities of a civil resister. Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Spiritual/Political Leader and Humanitarian 1869 – 1948 (BW 760) M. Gandhi integrated the teachings on nonviolence of Jainism, Henry David Thoreau's idea of civil disobedience, and the Bhagavad Gita's call to do your duty and fight for the just cause. The resulting fusion thereof changed the political arena of the twentieth century.
