(1)
To engage in an 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.

Only a person who, suitably equipped, feels no desire for the results of the conquest and yet remains absorbed in the struggle can truly say that he has renounced the fruits of victory.

One can renounce the fruits, but that renunciation does not signal indifference to the results.

The Warrior of the Light remains unconvinced by those who, incapable of achieving any result at all, preach renunciation!

(2)
The Warrior knows that no man is an island.

He cannot fight alone; whatever his plan, he depends on other people. He needs to discuss his strategy, to ask for help, in moments of relaxation, to have someone with whom he can sit by the fire, someone he can regale with tales of battle.

But he does not allow people to confuse this camaraderie with insecurity. He is transparent in his actions and secretive in his plans.

A Warrior of the Light dances with companions, but does not place the responsibility for his actions on anyone else.

(3)
The Warrior of the Light that everyone is afraid of everyone else.

This fear generally manifest itself in two ways: through aggression or through submission. they are two facets of the same problem.

This is why, whenever he finds himself before someone who fills him with fear, the Warrior reminds himself that the other person has the same insecurities as he has*. He has surmounted similar obstacles and experienced the same problems.

But he knows how to deal with the situation better. Why? Because he uses fear as an engine, not as a brake!.

* Remember Q4:104
Similarity: "If you should be suffering - so are they suffering as you are suffering, ..."
Difference: " ... but you expect from Allah that which they expect not. And Allah is ever Knowing and Wise."

(4)
The Warrior of the Light behaves like a child.

People are shocked; they have forgotten that a child needs to have fun and to play to, to be slightly irreverent and to ask awkward, childish questions, to talk nonsense that not even he believes in.

And they say, horrified: "So this is the spiritual path, is it? He's o immature!"

The Warrior feels proud of such comments. And he remains in touch with God through his innocence and his joy, without ever losing sight of his mission.

> The above 4 parts are from the book "Warrior of the Light" by P. Coelho (with minimal editing)

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