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I have a good friend I’ve known many years. He’s incredibly successful in his profession, and has an international reputation for excellence. He’s got nearly everything many people only dream about -- work he loves, a beautiful loving wife, wonderful children, the house of his dreams, a seemingly endless flow of money, and more.

John Cali

Nothing except Joe (not his real name) hasn’t yet found much happiness in his life, despite all his worldly success.

Joe is a complainer, often looking for something "wrong," especially in his work colleagues. He’s compiled a list of all the "wrong-doers" in his profession, and he relentlessly criticizes them, publicly and privately.

This resistance to what is has caused Joe much stress, and the stress has created various physical disorders. Joe is still a young man, but his health is that of what you’d associate with an ailing elderly man.

Here’s Chief Joseph.

Chief Joseph

You’ve heard it said money is the root of all evil. That’s not true, of course, as most of you know.

But we’ll tell you what is the root of all evil -- or, at least, the root of all you consider "evil." That’s resistance. Resistance permeates and pollutes the lives of people like Joe. No amount of worldly success can erase it. It brings, as John pointed out with Joe, unhappiness, stress, illness. It can ultimately result in physical death, as it often does.

Friends, if you could erase resistance from the face of your planet, all the ills of your society would vanish in a heartbeat.

Resistance is the cause of not only physical illness, but also wars, poverty, epidemics, and all the other maladies you want to rid your world of.

The root of resistance is fear. It’s that simple. When you have a society, or an entire world, living in fear, and the resulting pain that fear produces, you’re going to have lots of resistance.

No one has a monopoly on resistance. You find it not just in individual humans, but even "institutionalized," if you will, in governments, nations, religions, schools, and so on.

The fact you can wage war, condemn others of different races or religions, commit horrible crimes against one another is positive proof of fear running rampant in your society. All of these things would be eliminated if you gave up your resistance.

So what’s the key to giving up resistance? What’s the solution?

The key, the solution are simple, though not necessarily easy for a society so entrenched in fear.

The answer, of course, is love.

Love of yourselves, love of others, love of all that is. God, whatever you perceive him or her to be, loves all of you. We define love as the choice to see the divinity in all beings, in all that is, whether you consider it animate or inanimate.

Everything that exists carries within itself that divine spark. Everything is part of God. Everything is God. Including you.

Seeing your lives from the perspective of love will bring you an exhilarating sense of release, freedom, and joy. It will help you let go of your resistance and fear forever.

Love is the answer. Hold love in one hand and fear in the other. Then choose one. But choose wisely.

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