Paulo Coelho is one of my favorite authors; he writes
stories describing human growth as happening to people from all walks of
life and starting from varied different points in their stories. He
calls these people “Warriors of Light”, because they use whatever is
happening to them as a mean to transcend their situation and achieve a
higher vintage point for the soul.
The word “warrior” could be off putting to many people, it used to be the case with me, because the word denotes fighting and struggling maybe even against an enemy which is ethereal and intangible. And we don’t want to feel that life is a struggle, because it is not, or that we have to fight for anything, because we don’t have to. So many of us end up not wanting to associate ourselves with being warriors, just because of the negative connotations of the word.
It took me years to understand what is really meant by being a warrior; it has nothing to do with fights or struggle, but by a certain style of life in which you choose to do or act in a certain way that brings the best out of every situation you live. For example, in a situation where someone does you some harm, you might want to choose loving this person and seeing why he has done this to you instead of hating him. Even if you are not able to love that person at all or you are not able to see the reason for his action, the choice of not hating him is a strong and powerful decision in itself.
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The word “warrior” could be off putting to many people, it used to be the case with me, because the word denotes fighting and struggling maybe even against an enemy which is ethereal and intangible. And we don’t want to feel that life is a struggle, because it is not, or that we have to fight for anything, because we don’t have to. So many of us end up not wanting to associate ourselves with being warriors, just because of the negative connotations of the word.
It took me years to understand what is really meant by being a warrior; it has nothing to do with fights or struggle, but by a certain style of life in which you choose to do or act in a certain way that brings the best out of every situation you live. For example, in a situation where someone does you some harm, you might want to choose loving this person and seeing why he has done this to you instead of hating him. Even if you are not able to love that person at all or you are not able to see the reason for his action, the choice of not hating him is a strong and powerful decision in itself.
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