Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.

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

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 lot.

Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others. Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.

The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.