<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # If resisting has failed and frustrated you, try to... > {{If resisting has failed and frustrated you, try to accept what is. As hard as it is to believe, acceptance can open different opportunities for change than resistance.}} {{If you resist life, it will refuse you — but if you surrender, the world will give you everything it has to offer.}} {{Resisting is not the posture of receivership.}} {{Surrender is a state of readiness, awareness, and listening, which says you are ready to hear the transmission and receive.}} It's all about listening. The observer effect which is well established, means an {The {observer may, through the act of observation, change the nature of that which they observe. This is how listening works with life, and with relationships — through your so-called psychology, and through theirs. The more you listen, the more they change.}} **Source:** [[books/Various Writings|Various Writings]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->