In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.
The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.
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Stephen King
You are never too old to become younger!
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Mae West
It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on his life, all of it, as a series of events...
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Nicole Krauss
Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.
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Richard Rohr
More Quotes By Steven Pressfield
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.
Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.
Change came from below, as it usually does, rather than being imposed from above.
Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.
