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The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell when you finally do it.

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

Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion.

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

Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.

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

Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

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

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

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

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

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

Resistance obstructs movement only from a lower sphere to a higher. It kicks in when we seek to pursue a calling in the arts, launch an innovative enterprise, or evolve to a high station morally, ethically, or spiritually.

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

Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.

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

Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?

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

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

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

Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet.

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

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

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

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

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

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, l...

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

Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

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

Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.

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

Resistance's goal is not to would or disable. Resistance aims to kill.

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

There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens.

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