Allow

"We would like you to release the word "achieve" or "earn" from your vocabulary, and from your understanding altogether. And we would like you to replace those words with the word "allow." You're wanting to allow your well-being, not achieve it. It's not something that you need to earn. All you have to do is decide what it is you would like to experience, and then allow it in order to achieve it."
~Abraham Hicks

This quote is powerful. It is powerful in that it is foreign to me and I imagine it is foreign to others as well. I have always thought in terms of "achieving." At first read, to "allow", sounds like doing nothing and letting something come to you. And if you do that you might be waiting forever. But I think what it means is that we put up so much resistance in life and that resistance often comes in the form of pessimism.