Spiritual Warriors are basically indifferent to their place in the world. They are content where they are, and say, "The position I am in is the best position for my learning, for my growth, and for my expansion."

The Spiritual Warrior recognizes that each Soul has within itself all the elements of completeness. No other person can give us the perfect wholeness that comes from God. How difficult it is to accept this fact! We so easily make ourselves emotionally and even spiritually dependent on other people, including (and especially) those we love the most.

Since Spiritual Warriors are always looking for challenges to take them to the next level of strength and awareness, knowing yourself and being able to trust yourself is essential, because you will be going into dimensions where you will be the only reference point.

If you practice the inner work of meditation, contemplation, prayer, and spiritual exercises, all this will gradually become familiar, and the way of the Spiritual Warrior will become second nature to you.

A cardinal principle of the Spiritual Warrior is: It is not what is happening that is important; what is important is what you are doing with it. Thus you say, "Regardless of what it looks like, regardless of my perception, I will use everything for my advancement, upliftment, and growth."

A Spiritual Warrior works with impeccability to conserve energy for the most important task of all: Awareness. Awareness means being open and continuing to expand in spite of and because of any obstacles you meet.

In our training as Spiritual Warriors, we want the critics. We want a petty tyrant in our lives, somebody who is able to bug us with impunity, because these people always show us where we are going in relation to our intention. As a result, they can help keep us in line with our intention.

As a Spiritual Warrior you need to get this very clear: "If I am with the all, then I am not in tension or in need. I know I am with all things. I do not feel lack or pressure. I am poised. I am silent, peaceful. I can deal with any form that comes my way and let it go. I am not bound to anything." This is correct imagination.

Inside us, who we are as an eternal being meets the person who is here temporarily. Here the Spirit, the emanation from God, meets us, the selves we know. This is our point of convergence: A point of concentration or attention. The Spirit can be converged inside us in many ways. Someone yelling at us can change our convergence. When Spirit and mind move to the left, we can be very irritated and yell back. But when they move to the right, we say "Aha!" We see the events of the moment more clearly, and new ideas come forward, often quite rapidly. An essential part of your training as a Spiritual Warrior is recognizing when this takes place.

It is so difficult to reach perfect alignment, and so easy to fall out of it. We must never pause, look about us proudly, and make self-important statements like, "At last, wow, here I am! It took me so long and I studied so hard." That only makes the fall, when it comes, all the more discouraging. It is hard to try again when we are still worn out from our first exertions, but that is what the Spiritual Warrior must do. After you fall on your face a thousand times, you may be tempted to say, "I'm not going to get up again because I'll just fall." But you have to get up, even if it is just to avoid having people step on you.