Category: Meditations

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”
―Thomas Jefferson

What occasion calls you to resist your government?

Sometimes resistance needs to take the form of crossing boundaries and pushing limits. But resistance can also take the form of creating needed boundaries, of protecting, of cultivating spaces for restoration and renewal.

How do you create space for restoration?

“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.”
― Steven Pressfield

What possibility for your life do you find yourself resisting?

Most of us, particularly those raised as girls, were taught that we should be quiet, to use “indoor voices,” to mute ourselves in the name of politeness and civility. Civility is good. But sometimes you gotta get loud.

When do you raise your voice?

“People don’t resist change. They resist being changed.”
― Peter M. Senge

When have you resisted someone who tried to change you?