The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it. - Steven Pressfield

When Krishna instructed Arjuna that we have a right to our labor but not to the fruits of our labor, he was counseling the warrior to act territorially, not hierarchically. We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

On the field of the Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.

Is it healthy for a society to entrust its defense to one percent of its population, while the other 99 percent thanks its lucky stars that it doesn’t have to do the dirty work?