Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.

What we resist persists.

The project you are most resisting carries your greatest growth.

On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.

There's not an anti-Toto spray that will keep us down.

My demons are not that easy to shake.

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.

Sometimes on the journey, you step in dog poop. But you don't let the whole journey be about the fact that your shoe got poop on it.

They don't want you to win.

It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.

The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.

I've had much more down in my life than I've had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went into the film school everybody said, "What are you doing? This is a complete dead-end for a career."

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.

You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.

To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.

I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.