You haven't yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior's way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability--to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt. All along I've shown you by example that a warrior's life is not about imagined perfection or victory; it is about love. Love is a warrior's sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death.
I always thought love made you stupid. Made you weak. A bad Shadowhunter. 'To love is to destroy. 'I believed that[. . . ]I used to think being a good warrior meant not caring,[. . . ] And then I met you. You were a mundane. Weak. Not a fighter. Never trained[. . . ] Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger than anyone I'd ever met. And I realized I was the one who was weak.
The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don't feel good in the body.
I'd also hope that my liberal friends, who find in this pope a critic of what they're pleased to call "culture-warrior" Catholics, will read carefully, and ponder even more carefully, what Pope Francis had to say about the "ideological colonization" implicit in Western decadence when he was giving robust pro-life, pro-family talks in the Philippines.
No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.
Firepaw held the menacing amber gaze for few moments. Warrior and apprentice, for a heartbeat their eyes were locked as enemies.
Too bad you got so bogged down in books. You've got the spirit of a warrior.
A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.
Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.
Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.
The difference between a regular person and a warrior is not that you're not afraid. Hell, I was afraid. I don't want to go into combat with anybody who is not afraid because it's healthy to have fear. But what makes a warrior is the guy who can control that fear, channel it, and actually use it as a weapon.
The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. — J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors
A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.
It is the poor man who clenches so tightly to the gold he is given - for fear of losing it. The man of wealth spends his gold freely to accomplish his will in the world. It is the same with life. ' Suddenly ashamed of my conspicuous poverty, I lowered my eyes. But Scatha placed a hand beneath my chin and raised my head. 'Cling too tightly to your life and you will lose it, my Reluctant Warrior. You must become the master of your life, not its slave.
Master the divine techniques of the Art of Peace and no enemy will dare to challenge you.
Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths - the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute politician, the frustrated warrior. This is a deeply moving account of the last years of a very great man.
Still, they were two thorns from the same thistle. Their tactics in terrorizing innocent ladies were identical. Their behavior was downright sinful, but what made it even worse was the fact that neither warrior seemed to realize the effect he had on others.
A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.
Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'.