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.

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.