The Path of No Resistance: Why Overcoming is Simpler than You Think

“With patient and firm determination, we will press on until every valley of despair is exalted to new peaks of hope; until every mountain of pride and irrationality is made low by the leveling process of humility and compassion; until the rough places of injustice are transformed into a smooth plane of equality of opportunity; and until the crooke

The bottom line of this chapter is that thought, at its root, is a spiritual principle. Our thoughts simply occur to us. We don’t control their substance.

not as commercially profitable to point people inward to the fact that the human mind is designed to default to tranquility without effort. Money is made by providing external strategies, mental techniques, motivational speeches, and supposed quick behavioral fixes that prey on the insecurities of those who are suffering. I’m not saying that self-h

Again, since human beings don’t see clearly from low mental states, if we act from these states (including trying to fix ourselves), we stumble.

There is no connection between performance excellence and positive thinking. 7. There is a direct connection between performance excellence and unnoticed thinking (a state of no thought). 8. Positive thinking implies that clarity of mind can be achieved by doing (manipulating or changing thought) but clarity of mind only occurs instinctively or on

Nothing or nobody can make you feel something you don’t think. Your thinking, and only your thinking, creates your feelings.

So when you feel low, it has nothing to do with the events of your life—no matter how much it might look otherwise. What I’ve witnessed, over and over again, is that people with a keen sense of the thought-feeling connection consistently

Although few people realize it, everyone has what I call an “acuity gap.” This is the gap between your perceptions of the world, what you see, and the realization that these perceptions are created via your own thoughts. Liken your acuity gap to your level of consciousness. The narrower your gap, the better you understand that you feel your thinkin

We don’t live in the feeling of our circumstances. We live in the feeling of our thinking, and our thinking is always in flux.