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Idea from Awareness - Mello_et_al

What You Resist Persists

What You Resist Persists

Insight

De Mello observes that when you fight something you are tied to it forever, giving it exactly as much power as you spend fighting it, so the more you resist a feeling or a person the greater the power you hand them.

Source Context

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Related Concepts

control | negativity

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