To me, resentment is another way of giving up power. Instead of taking responsibility to change one's situation - one focuses on another and their energy goes to the other rather than to changing what one can change to make them less unhappy.

This guy is probably a giant whackdoodle - but this makes some sense to me about resentment:
"In the spiritual world, the basic dictum is, “There are no justified resentments.” This statement is abhorred by the ego. “Oh yeah,” it says, but what about so-and-so?” It then goes through its laundry list and litany of horrors, violations of ‘rights’, injustices, presumptive arguments of ‘ethics’, ‘morality’, etc. Every counselor, sponsor, or professional is familiar with such recitations. To recover, the question one has to face is whether one wishes to cling to it (and thereby get the ‘juice’) or give it up. This is the point of decision, without which healing cannot occur."

From Transcending the Levels of Consciousness, ch. 2, pg.56-57
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Posted on January 5, 2021
Categories Thoughts & quotes from Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. & Susan Hawkins