Respect all beings for the life they have chosen, for the plans made long before birth to take the journey now unfolding. All beings come into the world equipped with all they need, prepared to face the challenges they have posed to themselves. Knowing this, find the strength and compassion to step out of the way and let them proceed, for this life is their soul’s necessity.

Know this too about the self. You came into this life to have certain experiences, to learn specific lessons, to gain awareness, to chart a life of advancement. Such advancement is afforded all beings, though the route taken is individually laid out and unique. Such advancement is earned, learned, and gained by the experiences that life affords.

With compassion and respect view the self and others, knowing that life’s challenges are prescribed as prefect evolutionary practices. Honor those challenging practices, for they are the desires of the soul, the deepest search for evolution, for awareness, for eternal enlightenment. All journeys have this at their core, even yours!

A path with heart winds inward as much as outward, for how can it be a path with heart if the true self and the true heart are not found and embraced. Finding one’s path with heart entails finding who one truly is, so begin there, unlocking the secrets of the secret self, enabling the heart’s intent, venturing first along the inner path so that the outer path may be recognized as truly resonant. If one’s own heart is unknown one’s path will be hard to find.

To despise the self yet seek to love others will not result in a path with heart but only in a heartless striving for the unattainable. Learn first to love the self and then all love will be possible. A path with heart hums with loving kindness and compassion for the self and all beings. That is a true path with heart.

A warrior strives always for balance, and yet a warrior is always open and flexible, ready for anything. Yet a warrior also knows that excess reduces the possibilities for real magic to happen and so a warrior is impeccable in maintaining an open mind and heart while simultaneously honing the skills of a patient warrior, knowing that all good intentions and dedicated practice eventually bring rewards. In humbleness does a warrior proceed through life, knowing that at any moment everything can change. For a warrior knows the real truth, that to think one is in control is an illusion. And so a warrior’s main goal is to walk a compassionate path of heart with grace and humbleness, maintaining balance within and without, fully aware and ready for anything.

Regret not, but move steadily forward reminding the self often of the duality of life on Earth, that yes you are a physical being but also so much more than that, a spiritual being as well. Seek always to discover what that means. Knowing that you are more than your physical self is to be physically more present. For in knowing that you are so much more, you know that so much more is available too. And that is what you seek, fuller knowledge and access to all that is outside of the physical. You ARE more than your physical body. Don’t be afraid to find out what that really means!

Life unfolding offers all that is needed. All that is to be faced will be found in its daily challenges. Reminders of who you really are will emerge as you experience all that life offers and all that life takes away.

To turn away from the rigors of life may offer temporary solace and much needed rest, but the warrior knows that to retreat completely from the wiles and woes of life is to stop evolving. Only in stepping into the full force of life does a warrior learn to grow, learn what it means to be kind, loving, and compassionate. And so, a warrior does not stand down from life but stands up to it, taking every day and every thing that happens as a lesson to be mastered.

Life—it’s all you need. For it contains everything that will take you forward to discovering the true self, the warrior self who knows that every day is a gift.