“All stress comes from resisting what is.”

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.”

“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. ”

“I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?”

“All of those things - rock and men and river - resisted change, resisted the coming as they did the going. Hood warmed and rose slowly, breaking open the plain, and cooled slowly over the plain it buried. The nature of things is resistance to change, while the nature of process is resistance to stasis, yet things and process are one, and the line from inorganic to organic and back is uninterrupted and unbroken.”

“I don’t care. They can think what they want.”“Since when? What happened to the nervous, mysterious, guarded Abby I know and love?”“She died from the stress of all the rumors and assumptions.”