Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1140730 in Books
• Published on: 1995-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 267 pages

Synopsis
Shows how to cultivate the character traits of courage, compassion, discipline, loyalty, and self-knowledge.

Customer Reviews

The Most Important Lessons In Life
Courage, Compassion and Discipline are the core concepts within this book. They also spread through all other values of the warrior with all the different expressions this book presents, from peaceful to "warrior-like". These themes are obvious from the title of the book all the way to the last page, so I don't know why or how anyone can lose the plot... I think the editor here has brought together many important life changing lessons together into a book I will surely keep to re-read and analyze over and over.

A beautiful book, bringing many different interpretations for a more balanced perspective of what it really means to be a warrior. Take what is useful (you will find a lot) and reject what is useless and this book will change the way you look at your so called "life" for the better.

The wisdom presented in this book is not about fighting, not about violence, it's about self-realization and responsibility. The integrity of a warrior is something that is lacking in todays context, as the news will surely reveal to you. This book also spreads the need of the warrior archetype in loveing relationships, for example, you must remain detached from your emotions which enslave you, so that you can be more authentic in your loving relationships. Authenticity in the relationships world is something that is a very deep need especially in this "seduction community" based society. As for other ares in life such as work, illness, politics, psychology, family, art, martial arts, spirituality, and more, this book will wake you up to the response-ability that you have had all along to change your life.

The enemy of the warrior is cowardice, and the worst type of cowardice is the acceptance of your limitations. There is just so much I can talk about from this book.

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Like Goldilocks, this complilation had "too much" and "not enough". Too many short chapters, each by a different "warrior-writer" (including Bly, Campbell, Millman, Steinem?, Martin Luther King, etc.) each with yet another definition of just what a warrior is (uh, pretty much anything from peaceful to, uh, warrior-like!). There wasn't enough of a common thread, or enough detail, to get a handle on what concepts was actually being discussed. Not a bad book; but not very useful or insightful either. Very politically correct, very new age. Too bad this book couldn't have been reviewed by Mark Twain...