Talk Takeaways
There are three forces that are essential in the action of creation: an active force, a passive force, and a reconciling force.
Is there any painful moment in our lives that is not preceded by resistance to something?
There can't be resistance without something in our consciousness that describes the moment and blames its pain on something outside of itself.
The usual binary reaction to unwanted moments is fight or flight.
Our usual view of resistance is from the dark side of it, which is what turns it into something negative and a threat to our personal identity.
What is missing from the dark side of resistance is light.
The light side of resistance is the revelatory side of it. Natural resistance cannot be separated from revelation.
We would not be able to see objects with our physical eyes without resistance. In a similar fashion, resistance is revealing the content of our consciousness.
We don't see into our own consciousness because our consciousness mechanically shuts out anything that would reveal it.
The task is to make resistance our assistant, understanding that, in its original form, it is a revelatory force.
Use unwanted moments to turn your attention around and become a witness of the resistance instead of an unconscious instrument of it.
To be on the light side of resistance means to be aware of the temptation to be pulled along by the dark side of resistance.
The only thing that troubles us about other people is what we want from them, which is connected to the never-ending maintenance of an imagined identity.
The psychological root of addiction is an attempt to be someone that you imagine you have to be.
Without light, there is nothing to see.