Delusion Inc: Make Yourself a Gift to Yourself

Believe that nothing is impossible for you, think yourself immortal and capable of understanding all, all arts, all sciences, the nature of every living being. Mount higher than the highest height; descend lower than the lowest depth. Draw into yourself all sensations of everything created, fire and water, dry and moist, imagining that you are everywhere, on earth, in the sea, in the sky, that you are not yet born, in the maternal womb, adolescent, old, dead, beyond death...

Giordano Bruno, 1548-1617: Philosopher, mathematician, poet, alchemist

This is for me. If it helps you too, cool.

I... I can't. I just can't...

The Chinese Farmer: As told by Alan Watts

Maybe it's not what you think it is:

Hold Your Peace, Before You Make Your Piece

The Critical Voice: 

He* is no doubt a chainsmoker, drinks coffee like Balzac**, self-injects testosterone (in the eyeball!), and does coke off his desk.

Quiet the mind and lock him out. 

Now get to work.

*He is most likely a he, whatever the gender of the thinker. 

**Balzac drank 53 cups a day while writing – and died of a heart attack at 51.

Most things good for writing are bad for life. Lorrie Moore

Hiding Within

It turns out procrastination is not typically a function of laziness, apathy, or work ethic as it is often regarded to be. It's a neurotic self-defense behavior that develops to protect a person's sense of self-worth.

You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability – which is pretty much everything.

David Cain, Procrastination Is Not Laziness

Save your sorrow for after the fight

As best as I can tell, this is a quote from The Last Jedi (I've not seen it – Star Wars isn't my jam). The entire quote from Rian Johnson's script:

Save your sorrow for after the fight. Close your eyes. Feel it. The Light, it’s always been there. It will guide you.