What are we trying to heal, anyway? The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.
What happens when we turn pro is, we finally listen to that still, small voice inside our heads. At last we find the courage to identify the secret dream or love or bliss that we have known all along...
When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us .
You imagined we had entered unknown country, my friend, when we voyaged across the sea to Amazonia. Yet that was nothing beside the frontier I cross each evening with this woman who is my equal. Each...
The payoff for a life of adversity is freedom.
There’s no mystery to turning pro. It’s a decision brought about by an act of will. We make up our minds to view ourselves as pros and we do it. Simple as that.
The sword master stepping onto the fighting floor knows he will be facing powerful opponents. Not the physical adversaries whom he will fight (though those indeed serve as stand-ins for the enemy). Th...
The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.
The clash is epic and internal, between the ego and the Self, and the stakes are our lives.
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
Then there’s the third way proffered by the Lord of Discipline, which is beyond both hierarchy and territory. That is to do the work and give it to Him. Do it as an offering to God. Give the act to...
What factors make you decide to take a particular role? The actor always answers: Because I'm afraid of it.
Performing the commonplace under uncommonplace conditions.
The enemy is Resistance.
The enemy is in you, but it is not you.
The fundamentalist (or, more accurately, the beleaguered individual who comes to embrace fundamentalism) cannot stand freedom. He cannot find his way into the future, so he retreats to the past. He re...
What does Resistance feel like? First, unhappiness. We feel like hell. A low-grade misery pervades everything. We're bored, we're restless. We can't get no satisfaction. There's guilt but we can't put...
The hardest thing in the world is to be ourselves. Who are we? Our family tells us, society tells us, laws and customs tell us. But what do we say? How do we get to that place of self-knowledge and co...
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