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We're never alone. As soon as we step outside the campfire glow, our Muse lights on our shoulder like a butterfly. The act of courage calls for infallibly that deeper part of ourselves that supports and sustains us.
- Steven Pressfield
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How I like to write vs. the supposed best way to write.
I have listened to 'The War of Art,' by James Pressfield several times. It is a wonderful book for aspiring and established creatives. He talks about how the professional will dedicate a block of time daily to their art. I would like to do that, but my writing creativity seems to come in sporadic bursts, rather than being able to call upon it daily. I enjoy my 8+ hour marathons of writing, when it happens organically. Honestly, during those times I feel more like I am channeling the story, than creating it out of my own mind. When I sit down with a block of time, and try to force my writing, more often that not, my mind goes blank. I suppose we are all different. I just do not want to be doing myself a disservice waiting around for inspiration to strike. Maybe I should be typing whatever daily, if only for the practice. But somehow that feels like a waste. It is truly a conundrum to me.
¿Cómo se siente la Resistencia? Primero, infelicidad. Nos sentimos como el infierno. Una miseria de baja calidad impregna todo. Estamos aburridos, estamos inquietos. No podemos obtener ninguna satisfacción. Hay culpa, pero no podemos apuntar nuestro dedo a la fuente. Queremos volver a la cama; queremos levantarnos y festejar. Nos sentimos no amados y no amables. Estamos disgustados Odiamos nuestras vidas. Nos odiamos a nosotros mismos
Steven Pressfield
The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has its legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.
- Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire
Ahh the days of tabbing carrying a weighted down bergen and breaking my bones. I remember thee well. The only thing missing is the cold lashing rain and the mud splattings.
When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation, but to spend his substance for them, his comrades, not to abandon them, not to prove unworthy of them, then his heart truly has achieved contempt for death, and with that he transcends himself and his actions touch the sublime. That is why the true warrior cannot speak of battle save to his brothers who have been there with him. The truth is too holy, too sacred, for words.
- Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire
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Here is what you do, friends. Forget country. Forget king. Forget wife and children and freedom. Forget every concept, however noble, that you imagine you fight for here today. Act for this alone: for the man who stands at your shoulder. He is everything, and everything is contained within him. That is all I know. That is all I can tell you.**
- Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire
Speaking from experience this is all it comes down to in the end.
This brilliant novel - much better than the film - captures the truths that only those who have seen battle know. This book was given to me as a parting gift for my tour in Afghanistan and I later passed it around Camp Bastion in Helmand where we were stationed.
I would be lying if I didn’t question my presence there as a combat pilot, a woman, or as a human being, in this desert of dust and death. More stoically was the inner battle to come to terms with doubt, nerves, and the fear. But I remember underlining this above passage in my dog earred copy, and I finally learned to breathe more easy.
And then you just get on with it.
*** Dienekes at the Battle of Thermopylae
A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
- Steven Pressfield, The Virtues of War
The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has its legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.
- Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire
**A U.S. soldier of 2-12 Infantry 4BCT-4ID Task Force Mountain Warrior takes a break during a night mission near Honaker Miracle camp at the Pesh valley of Kunar Province of Afghanistan in August, 2009.
