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
We can work from our ego-minds, in which case we will burst blood vessels and suffer cerebral hernias, only to produce tedious, mediocre, derivative crap. 2. We can shift our platform of effort from our conscious mind to our unconscious.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
The artist is a role ordained by Creation. Even
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
We said that the artist has a subject, a voice, a point of view, a medium of expression, and a style. But where do these come from? How do we find our own? In my experience the process is neither rational nor logical. It can't be commanded. It can't be rushed. It is not subject to the will or the ego. We are born, I believe, with everything we are
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THE ARTIST LEARNS TO GIVE UP
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
You have a subject too. You were born with it. You will discover it on your artist's journey.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
The artist's journey is a parallel to the hero's journey in that you and I, the artists-in-embryo, must leave our Ordinary World (the conscious mind) and cross the threshold into the Extraordinary World (the unconscious or superconscious) to find and acquire our golden fleece (the knowledge of, and access to, our gift).
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
If each of our ten thousand daily excursions from Level #1 to Level #2 is in fact a mini-hero's journey, then what is Resistance? Resistance is a mini-Refusal of the Call.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
THE ARTIST LEARNS HOW TO KEEP GOING
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
THE MISNOMER OF THE UNCONSCIOUS