Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything.
Only the idea of death makes ...
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
“We choose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.”
“A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.”
“A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think he has finished acting.”
“A warrior never worries about his fear.”
