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.

To keep the self in constant spiritual awareness takes work. It is not enough to decide that certain times will be spiritual times. Such times offer the beginnings of a regular practice, but one should be a spiritual being all the time. To achieve this is challenging and yet it is the journey the spirit seeks.

Returning awareness constantly to the heart center returns awareness to the spiritual seeker within, to the spiritual warrior self who constantly nudges us to remember and asks us to practice our compassions, our kindnesses, our loving duties to self and other from this place of deep feeling and emotion all the time.

Remembering who we really are—spiritual beings on human journeys—provides a memory of our far greater purpose. It is time to remember and be who we truly are all the time. Choose to change the journey through life into a practicing spiritual journey by remembering who you truly are all the time. Let the practice begin!