There's a secret
that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's
not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.
Most of us have two
lives. The life we live, and the unlived
life within us. Between the two stands
Resistance.
If you take
Resistance at its word, you deserve everything you get. Resistance is always lying and always full of
shit.
The more important a
call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel
toward pursuing it.
Resistance obstructs
movement only from a lower sphere to a higher.
We get ourselves in
trouble because it's a cheap way to get attention. Trouble is a faux form of fame.
If you find yourself
criticizing other people, you're probably doing it out of Resistance. When we see others beginning to live their
authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.
If you find yourself
asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an
artist?" chances are you are. The
counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident.
The real one is scared to death.
The more scared we
are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
The more fear we
feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that
enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.
The opposite of love
isn't hate; it's indifference.
Success, like
happiness, comes as a by-product of work.
The professional concentrates on the work.
Resistance loves
"healing". Resistance knows
that the more psychic energy we expend dredging and re-dredging the tired,
boring injustices of our personal lives, the less juice we have to do our work.
Rationalization is
Resistance's right-hand man. It's job is
to keep us from feeling the shame we would feel if we truly faced what cowards
we are for not doing our work.
The professional is
prepared at a deeper level. He is
prepared each day, to confront his own self-sabotage.
