go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss
anymore.Lifeflowswithease.
The happiness that is derived from some secondary
sourceisneververydeep.It isonlya palereflection of the
joy of Being, the vibrant peace that you find withinas you
enterthestateof nonresistance.Being takes youbeyondthe
polaroppositesof the mindand freesyou fromdependency
onform.Evenifeverythingweretocollapseandcrumbleall
around you,youwouldstill feel adeep inner core ofpeace.
Youmaynotbehappy,butyouwillbeatpeace.

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Allinnerresistanceisexperienced asnegativityin oneform
or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the
two words are almost synonymous. Negativity ranges from
irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed
moodorsullenresentmenttosuicidaldespair.Sometimesthe
resistance triggers the emotional pain-body, in which case
evena minor situationmayproduceintensenegativity, such
asanger,depression,ordeepgrief.
The ego believes that through negativity it can
manipulate reality and get what it wants. It believes that
throughit,it canattract adesirableconditionor dissolve an
undesirableone.ACourseinMiraclesrightlypointsoutthat,
whenever you are unhappy, there is the unconscious belief
thattheunhappiness"buys"youwhatyouwant.If "you"—
the mind — did not believe that unhappiness works, why
would you create it? The fact is, of course, that negativity
does not work.Instead ofattractinga desirable condition,it
stopsitfromarising.Insteadofdissolvinganundesirableone,
it keeps it in place. Its only "useful" function is that it