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You need to read The War of Art. > “Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.” > “Every
by drewcrawford 12y ago
You need to read The War of Art.
> “Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.”
> “Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance. As powerful as is our soul's call to realization, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. Resistance is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, harder to kick than crack cocaine. We're not alone if we've been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dust before us. And here's the biggest bitch: We don't even know what hit us. I never did. From age twenty-four to thirty-two, Resistance kicked my ass from East Coast to West and back again thirteen times and I never even knew it existed. I looked everywhere for the enemy and failed to see it right in front of my face.”
That book is a treasure trove in how to change your thinking and defeat this. But it does require changing your thinking and a great deal of discipline.
- sateesh 12y agoIn a similar vein I think these lines from T.S.Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men" beautifully expresses one's struggles with the self: Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the shadow Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the shadow Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow
- eastbayjake 12y agoAnd Nancy Sinatra in "You Only Live Twice": You only live twice Or so it seems One life for yourself And one for your dreams Its use in the last episode of Mad Men -- where Don is watching a fired colleague contemplate the life not lived -- was brilliant.