If you say that brotherhood matters to you, why is your brotherhood so cheap? Why is it given so freely? Do you ask nothing in return for your brotherhood? What does your brotherhood offer?
~ Jack Donovan from, «http://www.jack-donovan.com/axis/2017/02/we-are-not-brothers/»
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My biggest struggle has been trying to live up to my own words and beliefs. I can’t just write this stuff and not do it. I can’t be that kind of hypocrite. I can’t tell people to go out and push themselves if I’m not willing to do it myself.
~ Jack Donovan from, «https://www.jack-donovan.com/axis/2016/10/this-is-for-me-too/»
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To train successfully, you must be willing to sacrifice portions of your present self-concept to a future, higher version of the self created by your ego. It is your ego, god-like, that is initiating and driving the process of self-transformation and becoming. This process requires you to exchange something you have for something you want. Nothing worth anything is truly free, and everything worth having requires some kind of sacrifice.
Instead of “killing your ego” — instead of fighting yourself — approach training as a sacrifice of a part of yourself to a higher self.
~ Jack Donovan from «http://www.jack-donovan.com/axis/2016/08/all-training-is-sacrifice-stw-episode-18/»
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