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90 Steven Pressfield
Heaven and Books About Heaven
Have you seen this great New Yorker cartoon:
A perplexed person stands
before two doors. One door
says HEAVEN. The other says
BOOKS ABOUT HEAVEN.
What makes us laugh, I suspect, is that all of us feel the pull to
pick BOOKS ABOUT HEAVEN.
Are we that timid? Are our huevos
that pocito?
When we’re offered a chance at heaven, what diabolically craven
force makes us want to back off—just for now, we promise our-
selves—and choose instead heaven’s pale reflection?
Fear of success is the
essence of Resistance.
It’s silent, covert, invisible ... but it permeates every aspect of our
lives and poisons them in ways we’re either blind to or in denial
about.
