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In Search of the Warrior Spirit, Fourth Edition: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets
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A warrior must be respectful and disciplined in their interactions with all living beings, and committed to protecting the sacredness of every life. This respect, discipline, and commitment must be instilled in them from a young age.
Larry Dossey • Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
Back down to no one, avenge every insult, never show fear, never display weakness. Play hurt, never quit.
Steven Pressfield • The Warrior Ethos
He was just a man doing a job. A job whose primary attribute was self-restraint and self-composure, not for his own sake, but for those whom he led by his example. A job whose objective could be boiled down to the single understatement, as he did at the Hot Gates on the morning he died, of “performing the commonplace under uncommonplace
... See moreSteven Pressfield • Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
What I call Professionalism someone else might call the Artist’s Code or the Warrior’s Way. It’s an attitude of egolessness and service. The Knights of the Round Table were chaste and self-effacing. Yet they dueled dragons.
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
Even the peerless sword master Miyamoto Musashi entered the fighting square to learn as much as to teach.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
The Book of Five Rings: A Classic Text on the Japanese Way of the Sword (Shambhala Library)
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