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- The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
- Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it most wants to…
- The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take…
- The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the…
- The part we create from can't be touched by anything our parents did, or society did. That part is unsullied, uncorrupted; soundproof, waterproof, and bulletproof.…
- The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because…
- The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it…
- We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are... That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity... because, if it's…
- I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life…
- Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being…
- For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self…
- These scars on my body,” Alexander declared, “were got for you, my brothers. Every wound, as you see, is in the front. Let that man…
- We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess…
- Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to…
- Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared…
- Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle