Secret Power of Words

Resentment is your own willful struggle with your problem, and it prevents you from realizing and re-experiencing the truth.
     Your own challenged will becomes the extension of the will of another when you answer the challenge in kind.
You cannot struggle against anything. Resentment is the energy of your pride struggling against the world. You struggle and struggle, and you become more and more upset and defeated. The more upset you are, the more word-sensitive you become. The resentment makes you guilty and the guilt makes you think to yourself, "Maybe they are right about me." And so you will abandon yourself to the lying word completely and die as though you were abandoning yourself to the truth.
    Now; just wake up and observe yourself, go out into the world and be conscious of words striking you. Watch your reaction to them, and you will survive.

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