Freedom Quote by Steven Pressfield

“You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.”

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Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

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The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming…

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There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is…

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To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

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“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…

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“Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore 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 growth of our soul. That's why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there'd be…

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When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.

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Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

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The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with this experience of exile. They share an acute, even excruciating sensitivity to the state of separation and isolation, and both actively seek a way to overcome it, to transcend it, or at least to make the…

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“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…

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