- What you resist persists. Carl Jung
- That which you resist stays. David R. Hawkins
- Whatever you are pushing against, you are stuck to. Werner Erhard
- You empower what you fight.You withdraw power from what you release. Alan Cohen
- Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists. Eckhart Tolle
- What you resist will persist; what you befriend, you will transcend. Robin Sharma
- Whatever I fight weakens me. Whatever I cooperate with strengthens me. Wayne Dyer
- To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself. Alan Watts
- What you resist always persists. This is because by resisting something you are directing negative energy to that object. Simona Rich
- 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. Neale Donald Walsch
- If you are resisting something, you are feeding it. Any energy you fight, you are feeding. If you are pushing something away, you are inviting it to stay. Michael Singer
- When you antagonize any given situation, you give it power against yourself. But when you offer mental non- resistance the opposition will crumble before you. Alan A. Rowbotham
- Forgiveness is healing—everything is energy—thoughts create—we are all connected—what you resist persists—true love never dies—the soul’s immortality is the only true immortality. Alyson Noel
- Whatever we fight, we shall strengthen, for the mere fact of fighting it is witness to our belief in it……Belief is but worship by degree. Resistance of any kind achieves the opposite of its intent. Peter Erbe
- What you resist, persists. If you are resisting something, you are feeding it. Any energy you actively fight, you are feeding. If you are using negative energy to push something away, you are inviting it to stay. Marc and Angel Chernoff
Fighting our emotions only makes them stronger. Next time you’re feeling anxious, try to force yourself to calm down and tell yourself you shouldn’t be so scared and see if that helps. It will likely just lead you to feel more anxious, and experience additional unpleasant emotions such as anger and frustration as well. Greg Dorter
- Research shows us that conscious attempts to suppress or avoid thoughts, feelings, or memories will actually increase their intensity. So if you try to suppress an emotion, memory, or thought that you don’t like, it will just come back to you in spades. It’s another paradox: You can’t control which feelings, thoughts, memories, or sensations show up in the first place, but you can make them much worse by trying to suppress them. Kirk Stroshal
- Anything that you fight with or struggle against grows larger. You give power to lower energies by focusing upon them. You don’t eliminate darkness by arguing with it. The only way to eliminate darkness is to turn on a light. Doreen Virtue
- Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them. Adyashanti
- You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I’m sure many of you have already found that out in your life. And then suddenly when you let go of resistance you let go of an attachment to something: I need this to happen in order to be happy; I don’t want what is, I want something else. To be okay with what is, which is the simplicity of this moment, is the beginning of true change. Eckhart Tolle
- …beware of making it your mission to “eradicate evil,” as you are likely to turn into the very thing you are fighting against. Fighting unconsciousness will draw you into unconsciousness yourself. Unconsciousness, dysfunctional egoic behavior, can never be defeated by attacking it. Even if you defeat your opponent, the unconsciousness will simply have moved into you, or the opponent reappears in a new disguise. Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists. These days you frequently hear the expression “the war against” this or that, and whenever I hear it, I know that it is condemned to failure. Eckhart Tolle
