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Read MoreI wrote in a post a few weeks ago that
Read More[The following is a post from a couple of years ago that just stuck in my head, Let’s bring it back today as a “blast from the past” … ]
Read MoreWhat are we running from when we find ourselves in the Wilderness?
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One of the things a writer realizes when she first becomes aware of her own Resistance—her internal, diabolical pull toward self-sabotage—is that it’s a dangerous world … not just “out there,” but “in here.”
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Picking up from last week, the dream described in that post has helped a little. But I’m still being hammered by self-doubt about this new book.
Read MoreI’m starting a new book and Resistance is beating the hell out of me.
Read MoreArtists and warriors live and die by one primal emotion.
Read MoreHave you ever blown an entire morning noodling with a single paragraph or, worse, a solitary sentence? Resistance has outfoxed you. You have hung up an entire battalion trying to capture an outhouse.
Read MoreLet’s revisit the quote from Rabbi Mordecai Finley that we cited two weeks ago. “There is a second self inside you, an inner, shadow Self. This self doesn’t care about you. It doesn’t love you. It has its own agenda, and it will kill you. It will kill you like cancer. It will kill you to achieve its agenda, which is to prevent you from actualizing your Self, from becoming who you really are. This shadow self is called, in the Kabbalistic lexicon, the ‘yetzer hara.’ The yetzer hara, Steve, is what you would call Resistance.” I believe absolutely that…
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