If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.

Don't wait until you die to learn the warrior's way. Do it now, each night, just before you drift off to sleep. As you review your day, consider these two questions of courage and love. Learn from each day, so that each day you can show a little more courage and a little more love. Then, as incidents occur, you may rise to the occasion and look back at the end of your life and feel good about the way you lived.

Allow rather than resist what arises in the present moment-inside or out. Let it be interesting rather than good or bad.

...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you.

Here and now...breathe and relax...in battle and in life

Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other.