A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.

Warriorship does not refer to making war on others. Aggression is the source of our problems, not the solution. Warriorship is the tradition of human bravery, or the tradition of fearlessness.