Thought provoking
beginnings always hide themselves in ends
You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.
It’s not a question of whether you’re on the winning side, it’s only a question of whether you’re on the right side.
And if the right side is the losing side, then fight the long defeat.
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
"There is freedom in constraints."
- Timothy Keller
So the point is to take the work seriously but you don’t take yourself too seriously. There’s a riff about this in Stephen Pressfield’s War of Art, where he talks about how amateurs are too precious with their work: “The professional has learned, however, that too much love can be a bad thing. Too much love can make him choke. The seeming
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