We grasp this concept best if we resist treating roads as simple natural objects they are, like the woodman's blazes, akin to texts that we "read" for guidance as we proceed that way.
If we resist, if we don't fully breathe in or we don't fully breathe out, then there's an unnecessary interruption in that process.
After all, life is about going with the flow -- and if we resist change, we just age faster.
If we resist the pain, then the trauma winds up stuck in a closed loop in the Mind as an emotionally charged issue or drama.
Whereas Arminians hold that human free will is such that we humans can, if we choose, resist God's grace forever, universalists tend to believe that, even though we can resist God's grace for a while, perhaps even for a substantial period of time (while mired in ignorance and ambiguity), we cannot resist it forever.
If we can resist the temptation to burn Plum Sykes's book, we can smuggle it into the future.
If the writers had avoided direct comment and published stories about Gary Condit or shark attacks, he said, "we would have looked painfully irrelevant -- it would make us ask why do we even exist, if we would resist weighing in on the biggest news story since Pearl Harbor".
"The general trend is such that any army commander in a place like Serbia is going to ask: even if we can resist this for one week, scatter the protesters for a few days, what then?" said Jonathan Eyal, a British strategic analyst.
If we can resist the urge to fill every minute with noise, excess and activity, we open the opportunity for inner peace and contentment to come in.
If we can resist the urge to numb or run away or be busy, then we will be rewarded in small things done well and with minimal regrets.
