There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, "Put back thy sword, Peter." But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since.

The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

The essence of oneself and the essence of the world: these two are one. [ The aim is not to see, but to realize that one is, that essence; then one is free to wander as that essence in the world.] Hence separateness, withdrawal, is no longer necessary. Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence-for he has the perfected eye to see.

If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.