Resistance has no strength of its own. Every ounce of juice it possesses comes from us.

Resistance has no strength of its own. Every ounce of juice it possesses comes from us. We feed it with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

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’s got.

Invent a disease. Come up with the disease, he said, and we can sell the cure

Socrates

everyone thinks tey are free yu are not free ypu are peasants and slaves ruled by govts concepts your famalies religins cultures

one is only truly free to the extent of your very own self mastery

if your paralyzed with fear its a good sign its telling you what you need to do

resistance loves healing

not that i dodnt think heaking is good its just anothet bullshit excuse keeping you from putting in the work i resisted my work for 7 years doing only as much as i had to do to pay my bills take care of my son and safaa and keep me frpm living n the streets but that was it

The artist is grounded in freedom. He is not afraid of it. He is lucky. He was born in the right place. He has a core of self- confidence, of hope for the future.

The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

resistance is fear

If Resistance couldn’t be beaten, there would be no Fifth Symphony, no Romeo and Juliet, no Golden Gate Bridge. Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.

For a writer to incorporate himself has certain tax and financial advantages. But what I love about it is the metaphor. I like the idea of being Myself, Inc. That way I can wear two hats. I can hire myself and fire myself. I can even, as Robin Williams once remarked of writer-producers, blow smoke up my own ass.

The principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbits; rivers make their way to the sea.

Here’s what I think. I think angels make their home in the Self, while Resistance has its seat in the Ego.

The Self is our deepest being. The Self is united to God.

The Self is incapable of falsehood.

The Self, like the Divine Ground that permeates it, is ever- growing and ever-evolving.

The Self speaks for the future. That’s why the Ego hates it.

The Ego hates the Self because when we seat our consciousness in the Self, we put the ego out of business.

Joyce’s phrase, to “forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”

“Shut your eyes and see.”

“You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.”

Resistance feeds on fear. We experience Resistance as fear.

Fear of the consequences of following our heart.

These are serious fears. But they’re not the real fear. Not the Master Fear, the Mother of all Fears that’s so close to us that even when we verbalize it we don’t believe it.

Fear That We Will Succeed.

THE ARTIST AND THE HIERARCHY

 I trusted what I wanted, not what I thought would work.

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

“Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.”