Fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?”The philosopher replied without an instant’s hesitation, “I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

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

Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.

. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us. Instead we show up possessing already a highly refined and individuated soul.Another way...

We’re wrong if we think we’re the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses theinitiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defendmakes them timorous.

When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul’s call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of...

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.

A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and notcampaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars.

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don’t just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.Never forget: This very moment, we can change...

Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were mean to be? Are you a writer who doesn’t write, a...

Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

What is this damn thing about?” Keep refining your understanding of the theme; keep narrowing it down.

Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion.

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

We’re never alone. As soon as we step outside the campfire glow, our Muse lights on our shoulder like a butterfly. The act of courage calls for infallibly that deeper part of ourselves that supports...

It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

The part that needs healing is our personal life. Personal life has nothing to do with work. Besides, what better way of healing than to find our center of self-sovereignty? Isn’t that the whole point...

Resistance obstructs movement only from a lower sphere to a higher. It kicks in when we seek to pursue a calling in the arts, launch an innovative enterprise, or evolve to a high station morally,...

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

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

The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and...