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Do the work, let go of the results
Cites the Bhagavad Gita, in his own writing
On his own site, Pressfield writes that in the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna tells Arjuna “We have the right to our labor, but not to the fruits of our labor”, crediting Krishna and the Gita.
- 2nd c. BCE to 2nd c. CE
“But thou, want not! ask not! Find full reward Of doing right in right! Let right deeds be Thy motive, not the fruit which comes from them.”
Bhagavad Gita. Earliest we can find, more than 1,800 years earlier.
- 2002
“In the Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna tells Arjuna, ‘We have the right to our labor, but not to the fruits of our labor.’”
Author’s own words, from stevenpressfield.com. Steven Pressfield, The War of Art (2002).
This book is still in copyright, so we read the author’s own words about it, not the book.
Sources
stevenpressfield.com: stevenpressfield.com/