There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours.

In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.

The 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.

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

We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.

He who whets his steel, whets his courage

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.