Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can't do something or why I should put it off for another day, procrastinate for another day.
Steven PressfieldCourage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
Steven PressfieldA cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
Steven PressfieldA child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. Itโs only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
Steven PressfieldThe more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.
Steven PressfieldIt may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us to breathe... 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.
Steven Pressfield