"To engage in any activity, the warrior needs to know what to expect, how to achieve the objective and whether or not he is capable of carrying out the proposed task."
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"He knows that there are occasional pauses in the struggle."
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"A responsible Warrior is one who has proved able to observe and to learn."
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"He never falls into the trap of the word "freedom"."
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"At the beginning of his struggle, the Warrior says: "I have dreams.""
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"The Warrior of the Light never forgets the old saying: The good little goat doesn't bleat."
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"He accepts his Personal Legend completely."
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"A Warrior of the Light cannot always choose his battlefield."
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"He is also wary of people who think they know the path."
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"He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy."
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"Like the fighter, the Warrior is aware of his own immense strength; he never fights with anyone who does not deserve the honor of combat."
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"He is now walking from his dream."
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"A Warrior of the Light does not accept gifts from his enemy."
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"Eating three times a day even if you're not hungry."
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"Going to a charity tea party and thinking that you've done your bit toward putting an end to social inequity in the world."
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"Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong."
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"In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of Christ."
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"Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species."
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"She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering, or the total absence of meaning in their lives."
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"The Warrior does not worry that, to others, his behavior might seem quite mad."
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