The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
Steven Pressfieldamazon.com
The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
From that moment I changed the way I approached songwriting, I changed how I sang, I changed my work ethic, and I changed my life.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
None of it will do a damn bit of good if you can't sit down and open the pipeline to your Muse. The artist's journey is about that. Nothing else matters. Nothing else counts.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
We can work from our ego-minds, in which case we will burst blood vessels and suffer cerebral hernias, only to produce tedious, mediocre, derivative crap. 2. We can shift our platform of effort from our conscious mind to our unconscious.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
The superconscious is that part of our psyche that knows where we put our keys when our conscious mind is certain we've lost them.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
The Call is scary. No wonder our initial impulse is to hide from it.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
Panic is Resistance pulling out the stops to keep us from ascending to the next level.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
Rather she sees, with the vision of imagination, what lies beneath the box scores and the market quotes. She sees what is real and brings it forth so that others can see it.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
The artist's journey, as we've said, is about linking the conscious mind to the superconscious. It's about learning to shuttle back and forth between the two.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
The Muse tells us who we really are and what our subject really is. No wonder these feel like surprises. They are voices that we never knew we had, rooms and wings in our house that we never knew existed.