Sublime

The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

In the thirteen years I was a player, I think I had three or four fights, none that I ever sought, but all of them ones where I felt I had no choice but to respond, where walking away would have created more problems for me than if I’d fought. Fighting was not how I showed toughness. Doing what was necessary to stand up for myself was.

The definition of warriorship is fearlessness and gentleness. Those are your weapons. The genuine warrior becomes truly gentle because there is no enemy at all.

“A warrior is not something you become, Dan. It is something you either are, in this moment, or something you are not. The Way itself creates the warrior.

The heart of the warrior is this basic aliveness or basic goodness. Such fearless goodness is free from doubt and overcomes any perverted attitudes toward reality.