The opposite of fear, Dienekes said, is love.
The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.
The next few chapters are going to be about those invisible psychic forces that support and sustain us in our journey toward ourselves. I plan on using terms like muses and angels. Does that make you...
The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind.
The danger is greatest when the finish line is in sight. At this point, Resistance knows we're about to beat it. It hits the panic button. It marshals one last assault and slams us with everything it'...
The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
The creative act is primitive. Its principles are of birth and genesis. Babies are born in blood and chaos; stars and galaxies come into being amid the release of massive primordial cataclysms. Concep...
The clash is epic and internal, between the ego and the Self, and the stakes are our lives.
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 pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because...
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell whether he knows it or not.
The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.
The amateur tweets. The pro works.
The amateur plays for fun. The professional plays for keeps.
The amateur plays for fun. The professional plays for keeps. To the amateur, the game is his avocation. To the pro it's his vocation.
That was when I realized I had become a pro. I had not yet had a success. But I had had a real failure.
Rooster was a bad slave. He had no use for anyone, not even the gods. Not that he was angry at the gods, like some I'd met. He just dismissed them entirely. There were no gods, and that was that.
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 enterpris...
Remember, they hate us as no other nation, for we are to them that which they fear beyond all: women unmastered by men.
Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.