Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb:… — 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
The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
As powerful as is our soul's call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We're not alone if we've… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.” — 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
