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This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit ...

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were mean to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't pain, an entrepreneur who never starts a ventur...

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the c...

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

The part that needs healing is our personal life. Personal life has nothing to do with work. Besides, what better way of healing than to find our center of self-sovereignty? Isn't that the whole point of healing?

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us. Instead we show up possessing already a highly refined and individuated soul. Another way of thinking of it is: We're not born with unlimited choices...

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but ...

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed. Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will b...

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

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

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is that it means there's tremendous love there too.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles