Carve out sacred time and sacred space each day, time for reflection, recapitulation, and rejuvenation. Without a spiritual component, without embracing and exploring the mysteries, the whys and the deeper meanings, life soon flattens out into worries, fears, and stresses, and joys are few, enlightenment a foreign word. To embrace the self as a spiritual being is to embrace life on earth as sacred time. Grasp not at that which is not present but at that which presents itself each day. There you will find the sacred, in each moment of reality.

Life is perceived as full of miracles and mistakes. To ignore one over the other is a mistake. To take everything as it comes is a miracle. To become fully responsible for the self, accepting both miracles and mistakes as part of the whole of the self is the warrior’s way. In full maturity, the warrior knows that neither is better or worse than the other, for the warrior knows that all that happens offers an equal opportunity to live life to the fullest.

A warrior does not live life steeped in negativity or regret, bemoaning mistakes that have been made or that have occurred. A warrior lives life steeped in the miracle of every moment. For in true reality there are no miracles and no mistakes. In true reality everything is equal.

Human life is a series of repetitions until the day comes when the lessons finally make sense. Until then they will be repeated in the thoughts, behaviors, and habits that make up life on earth. The lessons do bear repeating. Even the guidance from without bears repeating, for without repetition life would have no meaning. It is in the repetition that the truths, the lessons, and meaning will be found.

Do not dismiss that which is faced each day, the repetitive behaviors that make you You, that may make you feel stuck or habitually in a loop you can’t seem to get out of. For it is in your habits that your answers lie. And so, live your life fully, seeking always the opening, the way out of the loop and into a new phase. Thank your habits for the lessons they bring, for the truths they reveal. Soon you will learn that resolution emerges out of repetition.

Unfortunate events are bound to occur, and yet they do not have to be perceived as such. A warrior takes everything in stride and so one event has no more or less impact than another, for to a warrior all that occurs is part of the greater whole.

A warrior learns the necessary lessons in life and moves on unencumbered, eagerly awaiting what comes next, for a warrior knows that everything is meaningful, everything is necessary, and everything soon changes.

When emotions take over, it is time to look deep into the self. Who is to blame? Who is at fault for your aroused emotions, for how you feel? Like nature, emotions exist. Like nature they cannot be controlled. They arise like the sun. They pour like the rain. They rattle like the wind. And yet, a warrior learns that to tame emotions is to work with emotions, and to work with emotions is to discover just what it is that triggers them.

Emotions are valuable and necessary aspects of human life, and so a warrior befriends them and studies them, aware that they come out of necessity and are not to be dismissed but fully explored on the deepest level. To know the self is the warrior’s greatest charge. After that everything else will be known as well. For a warrior knows that mankind is the deepest and most complicated mystery of all of nature. And so the warrior is intent upon solving the puzzle of self, without self-importance but most humbly, knowing full well that all of nature is contained within.