Unconscious opposition to unwanted moments can never change the condition being opposed because the lower nature responsible for mounting this opposing force not only remains unchanged, but resists all that it does in order to ceaselessly re-create itself... Including the unwanted moments in which it always finds itself.

Resisting any unwanted or otherwise painful state guarantees its unseen cause that lies concealed within oneself will never be revealed. What remains concealed cannot be healed, which means its negative effect will never go away. Summary: self-revelation is the same as rising above whatever is pulling you down.

Resisting a negative reaction to any unwanted moment guarantees that you will revisit other moments just like the one over which you just got negative. It is impossible to rise above any problem without first realizing, and then releasing yourself from the unconscious pattern responsible for its re-creation.

To follow the Life of Truth, the Path of God's Life, one must become receptive and effectively passive to the Living Light while, at the same time, being active in disregarding the rebellion of the dark rebels within who have risen to resist your choice to follow the Light.

As surely as planting a lemon seed will grow a tree full of lemons, so is the following true: any solution that begins with resisting (the pain of) some unwanted experience will not only prove itself fruitless, but always give birth to more of the same!

To grow into a new and higher order of peace we must remember at the first sign of resisting some unwanted moment that we must work to detect and dismiss any tendency we have to identify with that negative reaction...

Count the moments you reject on any given day and you have before you the number of ways in which you've refused Life's great invitation to change your relationship with it.

Everything we've tried to do to stop our mind, to be quiet, contradicts the wish we have because it is a form of resistance.

Confusion and compulsion are secret partners in the pain they produce. Their unseen conspiracy creates the appearance of a "self" that resists seeing its own limitation, and that then seeks -- in desperation – a way to escape this unwanted encounter with reality by first "suggesting" -- and ultimately embracing -- some form of compulsive behavior.

We can neither control, nor change any anxious thought or feeling that rushes in and sweeps us off of our feet because this “I” -- this sense of self suddenly in a struggle to escape some psychological storm -- is itself part of the tempest it so vigorously resists.

Topics Covered: Egotism and self-love produces useless suffering; Useless suffering cannot be separated from useless, unseen resistance; The more we resist something, the more we suffer, believing that the resistance to what we want to do or be will somehow liberate us from what we don't want; The more you talk to yourself about why you suffer, the more you suffer...

Any real intention we set for ourselves to rise above our present level of being is going to reveal a lower level of self that doesn't want to change. This is a powerful spiritual law that creates both challenge and opportunity at the same time. The challenge: agreeing to see how our unconscious nature -- encased and enchanted by its own negative reactions -- is incapable of doing anything other than resisting unwanted moments.