To resist is to stand against something. And this experience of standing against, of standing for or standing up for is so ancient, so deep in us, that we cannot recall when it was not part of us. A child is born into a moment of surrender for which no surrender was necessary. Where there is a self, there is a standing-against, standing against being, standing against the world. Even the infant’s first convulsive motions are reflex of unarticulated struggle to not fall back into pure existence, to exist, to express to live.
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