the WAR of ART - by Steven Pressfield [scanned book].pdf

APPROACHING THE MYSTERY W hy have I stressed professionalism so heavily in the preceding chapters? Because the most important th ...

egolessness and service. The Knights of the Round Table were chaste and self-effacing. Yet they dueled dragons. We're facing dra ...

INVOKING THE MUSE T he quote from Xenophon that opens this section comes from a pamphlet called The Cavalry Commander, in which ...

mentioned heretofore, all leading nowhere, and finally washed up in this sleepy California town, with my Chevy van, my cat Mo, a ...

thereby, that I felt if I crapped out this time I would have to hang myself. I didn't know what Resistance was then. No one had ...

INVOKING THE MUSE, PART TWO B efore I met Paul, I had never heard of the Muses. He enlightened me. The Muses were nine sisters, ...

The Greek way of apprehending the mystery was to personify it. The ancients sensed powerful primordial forces in the world. To m ...

The universe, the Greeks believed, was not indifferent. The gods take an interest in human affairs, and intercede for good or il ...

TESTAMENT OF A VISIONARY Eternity is in love with the creations of time. -William Blake T he visionary poet William Blake was, s ...

the sphere itself, in the abstract) take joy in what we time- bound beings can bring forth into physical existence in our limite ...

brings them joy. In other words, Blake agrees with the Greeks. The gods do exist. They do penetrate our earthly sphere. Which br ...

INVOKING THE MUSE, PART THREE A rtists have invoked the Muse since time immemorial. There is great wisdom to this. There is magi ...

reality, but from a holier plane. Goddess, daughter of Zeus. Not only are we invoking divine intercession, but intercession on t ...

great, make it live. And not from one angle only, but in all its many bearings. Okay. We've said our prayer. We're ready to work ...

THE MAGIC OF MAKING A START Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation)there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of whic ...

Did you ever see Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders's film about angels among us? {City of Angels with Meg Ryan and Nicolas Cage was t ...

and allow the angels to come in and do their job. They can speak to us now and it makes them happy. It makes God happy. Eternity ...

THE MAGIC OF KEEPING GOING W hen I finish a day's work, I head up into the hills for a hike. I take a pocket tape recorder becau ...

that, without our exerting effort or even thinking about it, some voice in our head pipes up to counsel us (and counsel us wisel ...

behind this are smart. If we forget something, they remind us. If we veer off-course, they trim the tabs and steer us back. What ...