Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there’s tremendous love there too.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Resistance knows that the more psychic energy we expend dredging and re-dredging the tired, boring injustices of our personal lives, the less… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Resistance is a repelling force. It’s negative. Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Resistance in my experience always kicks in when you're trying to move from a lower level to a higher level or to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is that it means there's tremendous love there… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Resistance's goal is not to would or disable. Resistance aims to kill.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
As resistance works to keep us from becoming who we were born to be, equal and opposite powers are counterpoised against it.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The more important a call to action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. Each asks the same questions: Who am… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow!… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“that of dealing death, of loosing another man’s soul and sending it down to hell. You want to savor it, to twist the blade… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image