Sublime

When we conceive an enterprise and commit to it in the face of our fears, something wonderful happens. A crack appears in the membrane. Like the first craze when a chick pecks at the inside of its shell. Angel midwives congregate around us; they assist as we give birth to ourselves, to that person we were born to be, to the one whose destiny was en

A king does not abide within his tent while his men bleed and die upon the field. A king does not dine while his men go hungry, nor sleep when they stand at watch upon the wall. A king does not command his men’s loyalty through fear nor purchase it with gold; he earns their love by the sweat of his own back and the pains he endures for their sake.

own self-mastery.

He knew that Resistance was strongest at the finish. He did what he had to do, no matter how nutty or unorthodox, to finish and be ready to ship.

RESISTANCE IS INSIDIOUS

This “intimidation” that you and I feel can be complex, but it often stems from a dynamic that’s been brilliantly dubbed “the Resistance” by Steven Pressfield in The War of Art. He defines it as the singular, oppressive force that stands between where you currently are and the great work that you know you should be doing.

“But by our deaths here with honor, in the face of these insuperable odds, we transform vanquishment into victory. With our lives we sow courage in the hearts of our allies and the brothers of our armies left behind. They are the ones who will ultimately produce victory, not us. It was never in the stars for us.

Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs

The tides of war and peace had alternated in this site for centuries, bathers and warriors, one come for the waters, the other for blood.