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Trickster is the mythic embodiment of ambiguity and ambivalence, doubleness and duplicity, contradiction and paradox.
Lewis Hyde • Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
The antagonist is the person who is most heavily invested in achieving the same external goal.
Libbie Hawker • Take Off Your Pants!
Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. Resistance is the enemy within.
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
There is always something else to strive for – and this keeps most of us in a constant, sometimes painful, state of never-satisfied striving. And that striving for something that we do not yet possess is called desire. Desire doesn’t bring us joy because it is, by definition, always for something we feel we lack.
Aeon • How to Know What You Really Want | Psyche Guides
Indeed, pursuing pleasure, Seneca warns, is like pursuing a wild beast: On being captured, it can turn on us and tear us to pieces. Or, changing the metaphor a bit, he tells us that intense pleasures, when captured by us, become our captors, meaning that the more pleasures a man captures,
William B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
