The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is that it means there's tremendous love there too.
The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
The professional keeps his eye on the doughnut and not on the hole. He reminds himself it's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lo...
The will to victory may be demonstrated in places other than actual battle.
The Spartan king Agesilaus was still fighting in armor when he was eighty-two. Picasso was painting past ninety, and Henry Miller was chasing women (I'm sure Picasso was too) at eighty-nine.Once we tu...
We can always revise and revisit once we’ve acted. But we can accomplish nothing until we act.
When Krishna instructed Arjuna that we have a right to our labor but not to the fruits of our labor, he was counseling the warrior to act territorially, not hierarchically. We must do our work for its...
Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.
Sometimes on Wednesday I’ll read something that I wrote on Tuesday and I’ll think, This is crap. I hate it and I hate myself. Then I’ll re-read the identical passage on Thursday. To my astonishment, i...
Who profits from a king’s fidelity save generations a thousand years unborn, and which of his works will they recall at that remove, or care?
Depression and anxiety may be real. But they can also be Resistance. When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers. We're doing exactly what T...
Man is weak, greedy, craven, lustful, prey to every species of vice and depravity. He will lie, steal, cheat, murder, melt down the very statues of the gods and coin their gold as money for whores. Th...
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
Faced with our imminent extinction, Tom Laughlin believes, all assumptions are called into question.
Fundamentalism is the philosophy of the powerless, the conquered, the displaced and the dispossessed. Its spawning ground is the wreckage of political and military defeat, as Hebrew fundamentalism aro...
Problem with friends and family is that they know us as we are. They are invested in maintaining us as we are.
How many pages have I produced? I don't care. Are they any good? I don't even think about it. All that matters is I've put in my time and hit it with all I've got. All that counts is that, for this da...
The acquisition of a condition lends significance to one's existence. An illness, a cross to bear. Some people go from condition to condition; they cure one, and another pops up to take its place. The...
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