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.

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.