Survival Guide to Goddess School

Term II: Way of the Warrior

So far in school, I have learned that being a warrior is challenging, in fact the only thing harder than the exams are learning the tools we need to pass them.

They teach us simple things, but it is the simple things that can be the hardest to do.

1. Be un-attatched to the outcome: a warrior's job is to reach the goal, not to control how that goal is reached; only to follow his part in making it so

2. Surrender all expectations: of how your “adversary should act, how your ally should be, and most importantly, of how you should feel, respond, or perform. (once again a warriors job is only to reach the goal, not control how.) After all, there is no rule that one should reach the goal gracefully, or painlessly, or quickly

3. Accept everything as it is: everything is exactly as it should be. Instead of trying to change reality, align with reality. From there you can look to see how to take advantage of the reality before you

4. Surrender what you want for the needs of the greater good. When sound judgment and objectivity have abandoned you, choose the path that allows the most people to succeed ( succeed in achieving peace/unity, not personal gain).

5. When all else fails, hold onto what you stand for, not what you stand against. Let what you stand for move you forward past the fray of smallness that seeks to defeat us at every turn.

This is what we have been taught. The peace within me grows ever wider, and oddly enough, I have discovered my capacity for compassion has grown in the heat of battle. Perhaps this war we have waged with truth, is to make the truth grow brighter within that we may light this universe, and those universes still to come.