Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes

The amount of stress in your life is determined by how much energy you expend resisting your life.

What we resist persists.

Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.

...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you.

Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.

What you resist, persists

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

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.

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. Have I not told you all thought is creative?

Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond. If you fight it, you're stuck with it.

The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.

Anger punishes the bearer's heart. Who remains angry suffers most. For many, the search for perfection virtually guarantees it will be found, and disregarded in order to continue the search. Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

Stop resisting your problems so furiously in your mind. Stop struggling to solve them. If you do that, a great sense of peace followed by a great sense of power will come to you.

What you resist will persist; what you befriend, you will transcend.

Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

I don't worry about the things I can't change.

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

I've realized that no problem is as hopeless as it first may seem, I've learned how to live day to day and show others how to do the same, and most of all, I've learned how to just be.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by.

I'm not a tortured soul.

When I try to go with what's happening and embrace that as much as I can, it seems to be a much smoother journey for me.