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Champion
Legacy, Creativity, Darkness
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In PATH OF A WARRIOR, you’ll find quotes like this one:
The true Master does not wish to lead,
Nor does he wish to follow.
He only wishes to place himself
Where he is needed most.
You’ll find poems like this one:
And to My Son, I Leave the Forest
Pick up my pack, kid, hardships and all.
Take up the challenge which I tried to stall.
Walk through the forest that I tried to tame.
See each living thing there and remember its name.
Go through the darkness like I never did, Carry the lantern which I was forbid.
Jump over the streams, boy, now shallow and dim, Where once where great rivers that I tried to swim.
Make a small pathway whenever you can.
Be a good man, son, but first be a man.
And if you get lost, lad, and wish to come home, Just look down my path, son, then follow your own.
A NEW BOOK!
The long anticipated follow up to PATH OF A WARRIOR, WALK THE DARKENED DOORWAY is now available! In it, you’ll find Phil’s Warrior Insights like this one:
Composure
Composure is a quality which allows one to seek neutrality amidst the urge to jump blindly to one side or another. It is what makes the difference between a decision made with emotion and one made with wisdom.
Without composure, there is only the pretense of it. While this pretense may instill confidence in those that choose to follow us (or even join us in conflict or adversity) it’s like a fog waiting to be lifted as the warmth of light or the heat of battle approaches it.
True composure withstands both the light and the heat.
It instills a fear of the unknown in a potential enemy who cannot understand the reason behind it, especially when they thought they had created fear, confusion and uncertainty.
Being a model of composure enables those around you to lean on you with confidence. When you have it, those that try to intimidate you will never know if they have.
To those that wish you harm, true composure is the image of the lion with a full belly, lying in the cool shade.
You’ll also find quotes like this one:
When the Master sets his table,
The edges of his cloth fall evenly on all sides and all will see and understand.
When the true Master sets his table,
The edges of his cloth fall across the laps of those likely to spill their food And only a few will see and understand.
When the truest of Masters sets his table, The edges of his cloth fall well beyond his own lifetime And only the Master will see and understand.
PLUS, when you order three or more books, we’ll include a FREE BONUS from the Modern Warrior Lecture Series Audio CD line - you’ll get "Developing Your Personal Code of Ethics."
Perfect for listening to on your commute, this CD consists of Phil talking to his students about his own personal code of ethics and his advice for developing yours. You’ll enjoy listening to it again and again.
These books contain almost three decades of the wisdom, poetry and thought provoking insights on combat, life and everything in between from Phil. Since Modern Warrior began with just one student in his basement long ago, Phil has been tacking up these bits of wisdom on the gym walls. Now you can get the newly edited PATH OF A WARRIOR and our new compilation, WALK THE DARKENED DOORWAY.
Why not do a little Holiday shopping early? These books make a terrific gift or a wonderful coffee table book for guests to peruse.
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Champion
To champion a person or a cause is stand between that person or cause against the forces that would injure or destroy it.
For centuries, warriors have championed causes that others step away from, out of both convenience and/or cowardice.
To champion a cause is admirable, but to champion an individual is both admirable and noble, especially if that individual is weaker than those who wish to cause that individual harm.
In fact, the greater the odds and the more overwhelming the opposition against the individual in need of a champion, the more noble and courageous the warrior who champions that individual or individuals needs to be.
To the true warrior, those in need of a champion are worthy of the warrior's support - even when the need to take a stand comes at a time when the warrior himself is weakened by wounds of past battles or by burdens which are the warrior's alone and cannot be shared.
True warriors come forth to champion those in need, even when every logical instinct tells him or her to "let this one pass" or wait until the strength is returned to both the warrior's limbs and heart. For the warrior's heart, even when wounded, must remain pure, to whatever extent a mortal heart can be pure and the blood of a warrior's heart remains invaluable, whether pumping through that heart or spilling out onto the field of battle.
For the true warrior can only be beaten in battle, but can never be diminished, as long as he or she never releases him or herself from the ideals of being a TRUE warrior, a TRUE champion and whether in victory or defeat, a TRUE hero.
Read more about being a Champion here:
www.modernwarrior.com/AWSDA.html
"It is those weaker than ourselves that give us the opportunity to become true champions. For in the end, immortality lies within the shadow we leave behind." Phil Messina
Legacy, Creativity, Darkness
Your legacy is the imprint that stays in this world long after you’ve left it. It is the image of what you were and what you stood for. It is the voice that others may hear when deciding on a course of action. It is both the lessons learned and the lessons taught.
Legacy is about all the actions you took, and didn't take. It's about the things you did, and said, and the things you didn't do or say.
Legacy is not just about what you did right. It's also about all the things that you did wrong and how (or whether) you faced up to those things. Did you hold yourself accountable for them? If so, how did you adjust to them and use those missteps as learning experience? When you create good things from bad, it has a ripple effect on everyone touched by the life you lived, directly or indirectly.
When our life has meaning, it allows us to cut a path into wilderness which others will widen and lengthen, perhaps never knowing who first wielded the machete that cut through the branches and thorns that turned others away. That path, and where it leads, and how it’s used long after we are gone will always remain our legacy.
A true warrior creates a life that becomes a legacy for others who wish to follow a warrior’s path.
Creativity
Creativity is what lies between what is and what can be. It is the ability to see not just the spaces between what already exists, but also what should exist to fit between those spaces.
To be truly creative one must be able to take the sum of what is predictable and bring it to an unpredictable end. It is being able to reach one’s goals without taking the normal routes which others have taken to reach those goals.
Common sense can at times be a hindrance to creativity, simply because common sense tends to lead to predictable actions. Once an enemy or rival expects you use common sense, they have the tools they need to counter your actions or get out ahead of your intended path and wait in ambush to catch you by surprise or to undermine your efforts.
A true warrior learns not just how to utilize common sense, but also to defy common sense periodically, so that an enemy or rival will only see randomness where there is in fact a predetermined purpose about to be achieved - before anyone using mere common sense can predict it.
A true warrior exercises confidence, courage and creativity, and is destined to be victorious both in battle and in life.
Darkness
The yin-yang is black and white with a little black in the white and a little white in the black because whether you are fighting for good or evil - each of us has a little of the other in us. Said in other words: you cannot be good without having at least a little darkness inside of you. In fact, the more you fight for good, the more personal shadows you will have to overcome.
Fighting for good can be an external battle by physically challenging the wrongs that happen in life, or an internal one by working hard to be a become a better person. Either way, we are going to make mistakes along the way and it is important to realize that if we choose to struggle, we will always grow.
No one has ever achieved the level of perfection. There is always a constant battle to strive to be the person who you desire to be. Some days the battles are harder than others and you slip up, and think that's not who I want to be. It's the ability to acknowledge your darkness and to accept that everyone has darkness and that you choose to fight your darkness for the greater good is what is makes us warriors.
Good people battle both the darkness that lurks inside of them and the darkness that they encounter on the outside.
We all have a darkness. Anyone who says different hasn't had the courage to look theirs in the eye and say to it “I know you are there, and I may slip, but I'm a warrior because I am persistent and will continue to fight you everyday.”
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