There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with here in the States of the Diaspora Jew, i.e. Jews in America or Europe or Russia, etc. does not fit at all with the reality of the homegrown "sabras" of Israel.

But nothing really clicked for me until I gave up completely on hitting the overlap and just did what I loved, even when I thought nobody else in the world would be interested.

On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.

As resistance works to keep us from becoming who we were born to be, equal and opposite powers are counterpoised against it. These are our allies and angels.

The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.