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Dragons aren’t a signal that we’re on the wrong road but rather that we’re on the right road. So the next time you’re dismayed or hesitant because of a dragon guarding the way forward, embrace that it’s there precisely because it’s the way forward and charge headlong at it. You were made to beat dragons.
Charlie Gilkey • Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done
- Dragon energy manifested in the warrior archetype shows its grandiosity in workaholism, the fantasy that you can keep the world from crashing down around your ears by working harder and harder.
Robert L. Moore • Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity
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Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered, Wild Woman comes back. She comes back through story.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Only take advice from people who have faced the beast.
Josh Kaufman • How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be
The shield, perhaps Leonardo’s first recorded piece of art, displayed his lifelong talent for combining fantasy with observation. In the notes for his proposed treatise on painting, he would later write, “If you wish to make an imaginary animal invented by you appear natural, let us say a dragon, take for the head that of a mastiff or hound, for th
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The daemon is the source of great ideas, groundbreaking insights, generosity, love, connection and kindness.
The resistance spends all its time insulating the world from our daemon. The resistance lives inside the lizard brain.