"All inner resistance is experienced as negativity..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle
All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words are almost synonymous.Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes the resistance triggers the emotional pain body
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“Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.”
“Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.”
“The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.so, peaceful suffering and passive resistance and all of that stuff is all right maybe in India somewhere, where the people in India outnumber the whites - about a million to one.But here in America, when you tell that's like an elephant sitting down on a - on a mouse in India with [Mahatma] Gandhi.”
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“Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.”
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“May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others, may I firmly face and avert it.”