The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
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The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
This is what you were born for. Nature has built you for this.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
In other words, the artist and the hero are working individually and collectively on a "mighty task" supported by Nature and protected by forces, not only of the unconscious, but of the real world, in real time.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
presence—endlessly creative, ever-mutating, responsive-in-the-moment—supporting and guiding you as you evolve and advance.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
There is a dimension of reality above (or below) the material dimension we live in. If you're an artist, the search for that dimension is your life.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
It is one more item in my arsenal of routines, and one less thing to think about.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
A sublime story. We need it. It stops the pain.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
This is also the rush of working as an artist. This is what makes the process addictive.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
The artist's role is to shatter the illusion of separation and isolation and to blaze the trail back to the condition of Oneness,
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
How do artists perform this service? By producing works whose fruit, for the reader or viewer, is empathy and compassion for the Other and, ultimately, identification with the Other.