Level with the self each day. The truth must be faced. Sometimes it is only right to let go and move on. At other times it is appropriate to stay put, focused on the goal at hand. Sometimes both moves are appropriate simultaneously, for often there is something that must go for something else to flourish. To let go of that which inhibits so that growth may happen is like weeding a garden that has been overtaken by rogue plants, its beauty choked. To allow room for beauty one must remove the unruly, that which has gotten out of hand. Sometimes it’s just time to call it like it is. Restore the beauty that it may bloom and grow. Begin within and soon find it flourishing without.

Learn to pay attention to your body’s speak as much as you pay attention to your mind’s speak, for it communicates more truths in its own way than your busy mind ever will. The body has its own intelligence, its own center of knowledge, and its own means of relaying its truths. Pay attention to what it says and how it says it. It will tell you what is most important for you to hear on any given day. Its energy will tell you what you need to do or not do.

Once you begin listening to your own body, as you learn its language, you will find that it speaks very clearly and you will wonder how you never heard it before. Your life may change as you get into alignment with all that you most naturally are, as natural as the earth around you, your human body environment needing as much tending as the planet you reside upon. To neglect either is to be out of synch with the Tao, the Tao of nature and the Tao of self.

Listening is as important as doing in the Tao of all that is. Listen carefully to the Tao of you and the Tao of you will speak words of wisdom. Are you ready to hear them?

Without regret live your life to the fullest. Be open of heart, mind, and spirit. Be unafraid, certain that all will be fine because as life unfolds you will find this to be true. Plan to live your life according to your life’s plan and all will be well, for your life’s plan is to bring you closer to knowing your Self, and who could be afraid of that!

It is good to attune to the energy around you, to study it for how it disturbs, how it seeks attachment, how like magic it seems to conjures more of itself. A warrior is always aware of energy because it is a warrior’s goal to use it appropriately, to fullest advantage, and to ignore it when necessary. A warrior knows that it is the inner energy, and the energy of goodness, kindness and compassion that deserves attention, that needs to be honed and made usable.

A warrior’s goal is to always have enough energy, for in the end it is all that one is and a warrior knows that to be without enough energy at the crucial moments in life could mean the difference between advancing and staying behind. In either case, a warrior seeks to know what truly is, and does not get drawn in or caught by what seems to be.

And so, many decisions are made based on energy alone where no other criteria exists and no other elements matter. Often the best choice to be made is an energy one. How will you choose to use your energy today? What is the best choice to make?

True compassion lacks a personal agenda. It is free of personal desires or wants but simply flows uninhibited, for its own needs are to do just that, to flow freely. Practice compassion. Allow it to stir within as you live in the world without. Let it exist for its own sake. Be its channel. The world needs it right now. Your participation in the spread of compassion is greatly needed. That is the only need appropriate to attach to it, the great need of its need. Practice and be compassion.