Don’t take everything so personally. That which bothers you so much is merely a lesson, and your challenge is to determine the deeper meaning for you specifically. Some lessons are helpful, others are warnings, others are directly related to choices being made. Perhaps the lesson is compassion for self and other, for the struggles that all must encounter in life. Perhaps the lesson is an awakening to your true reality. Perhaps the lesson is a wakeup call to change. Perhaps the lesson is a much needed change of heart and change of direction.

When you project your feelings, thoughts, emotions, likes and dislikes onto another person, you refuse a part of yourself and part of your unfolding journey and the lessons that are specifically yours to encounter. A warrior refuses nothing, but a warrior examines everything objectively. A warrior makes choices that are responsible, mature, and growth-oriented. A warrior knows that everything encountered in life is part of the bigger picture, part of the journey to wholeness.

Refuse nothing, study everything, and choose wisely. Seek deeper meaning. And with compassion for self and other, love your challenges, for they are your salvation.

What is the best possible scenario for your life’s path to take on this day? How will you navigate this day? Even as you must be open to how this day approaches you, so must you decide how you will approach it. You know what you have to do. Do it with sincerity and honesty, with compassion and kindness, but stick to your guns, so to speak, to your hard-earned knowledge and insight, to that which is crucial and right, in spite of what you may hear. Be also flexible when possible. Negotiate that which you can and yet remain solid, like a warrior who has trained long and hard, who has learned how to strike and how to hold back appropriately so that energy is conserved. And don’t forget to be nice. Sometimes that’s all it takes. Being nice to another human being may really be all it takes to have a great day!

Worry is a figment of the imagination, the mind on fast forward, spinning intricate tales of woe. A warrior knows that worry is an energy thief, a by-product of life upon that earth. And so, a warrior steps away from worry. Shielding the self from its sneaky approach, a warrior stands aside and looks in a different direction. For the warrior knows that there is something else that is more important and that worry comes to distract from it, to confuse the mind and distance the heart.

When worry comes the warrior refuses it and turns instead to the path of heart and compassion where the worry thief dare not tread. For the heart allows only that which is positive and good into its chambers. There are no worries in the chambers of the heart, for only the language of truth is spoken there, only that which truly has heart.

The way of the warrior is the way of the compassionate heart. Seek to be compassionate in everything you do, everywhere you go, and with everyone you meet. Whether alone or in a crowd arouse compassion within and experience it without. Compassion will naturally grow and be nurtured by this constant awakening and experiencing of its innate goodness and your life will advance along new lines of communication, in silence, in spoken words, and in every action you take.

There are no absolutes. Try as we might we cannot control, hinder, or hold anything to a finite point. All of life is fluid and in constant motion. We too must learn to flow with life. In a constant state of flux we are ready for anything, able to turn with the tides, to light with the sun and moon, to slumber with the darkness. All life becomes a journey of exploration when we relax and flow with it. This is the lesson we learn as we join in the energy of life in flux. The only absolute is that we exist here, for the time we live. Beyond that we control nothing.