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

LARGO I n my twenties I drove tractor-trailers for a company called Burton Lines in Durham, North Carolina. I wasn't very good a ...

But where was Largo? I was standing miserably by the rail when the captain came over and started talking to me. Even he was lost ...

I was sitting cross-legged when an eagle came and landed on my shoulders. The eagle merged with me and took off flying, so that ...

come from? Why did he show up at just the right time to tell me just what I needed to hear? Clearly some unseen intelligence had ...

LIFE AND DEATH R emember the movie Billy Jack starring Tom Laughlin? The film and its sequels have long since decamped to cable, ...

Other thoughts occur to the patient diagnosed as terminal. What about that gift he had for music? What became of the passion he ...

The Ego, Jung tells us, is that part of the psyche that we think of as "I." Our conscious intelligence. Our everyday brain that ...

us in the form of cancer? And if they did, can we cure ourselves, now, by living these lives out? STEVEN PRESSFIELD ...

THE EGO AND THE SELF H ere's what I think. I think angels make their home in the Self, while Resistance has its seat in the Ego. ...

D. To get from breakfast to supper we have to live the whole day. 3) Every individual is different and separate from every other ...

3) All beings are one. If I hurt you, I hurt myself. 4) The supreme emotion is love. Union and mutual assistance are the imperat ...

EXPERIENCING THE SELF H ave you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, ...

The Self is united to God. The Self is incapable of falsehood. The Self, like the Divine Ground that permeates it, is ever-growi ...

The Ego hates artists because they are the pathfinders and bearers of the future, because each one dares, in James Joyce's phras ...

FEAR R esistance feeds on fear. We experience Resistance as fear. But fear of what? Fear of the consequences of following our he ...

Fear That We Will Succeed. That we can access the powers we secretly know we possess. That we can become the person we sense in ...

source of wisdom, consciousness, companionship. Yeah, we lose friends. But we find friends too, in places we never thought to lo ...

THE AUTHENTIC SELF Do you have kids? Then you know that not one of them popped out as tabula rasa, a blank slate. Each came into ...

blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us. Instead we show up possessing already a highly refined and individuated ...

TERRITORY VERSUS HIERARCHY I n the animal kingdom, individuals define themselves in one of two ways—by their rank within a hiera ...