"Suffering is the resistance of what is."

I was watching Dateline tonight on the special with Barbara Streisand. She quoted, "suffering is the resistance of what is."

My mind is doing a 360... thinking about my past. Why I suffered, how long I suffered and it all comes down to this statement..."suffering is the resistance of what is." You suffer so much, but only because you resist the situation.... you don't believe that it has happened, you believe the situation will turn around, or you cannot admit that the situation has happened... you resist the situation. And the more I think about it, the more I suffer, the more I realize that I am resisting the situation for some reason or another. I guess what it comes down to is admiting what IS in order to move past the suffering.

I have suffered quite a bit in the last year. Some of it because I would never admit what I was feeling and completely shut everything out. Looking back, I think I could have dealt with situations better, but I guess that is how I learn. I denied much of what I was feeling.. even to myself. I've done that over the last few years too... I'm really good at blocking it out... people and situations. I just walk away from the matter and don't look back. The problem with this is you still have some of those feelings bottled up. Luckily, I've had a great journal that has taken a beating over the last year. I am learning... slowly.