The true warrior knows that love transcends all other emotional states, unless love has been precluded from existing in the warrior’s heart by virtue of their having erected walls of fear and negative emotion. Hate, hurt, inadequacy, inferiority, weakness, lying, cheating, stealing, guilt, and living a worthless life will be huge barriers between you and love. Perhaps you think love is over-rated—that you don’t need it, because you can take care of yourself. Well, take an inventory right now and try being somewhat honest. How it is really going for you? Is it working, really? Or is it mostly not working?
What if you decide to live a life powered by love? What if you live a life based on a belief in God (or a higher power of your own definition)? You live a well-balanced life of goodness and sacrifice, and when you get to the end of your life, you discover that on judgement day (or in this case non-judgement day) no one really cares. God either doesn’t exist, or is not interested in judgement either way, so none of it matters
Conversely, you might get to the end of your life and discover that it did matter—that there is a God, love is all powerful, and your life of goodness and sacrifice has paid off for you. You make out okay. In either case, living your life the way you did won’t have hurt you or those around you; it can only have been good.
Now live a life based on deceit and debauchery, and then have the same potential outcomes. In one you still get away with it, but in the other, you find out you’ve made a grave mistake. Was it really worth it? Well some of us are sicker than others, emotionally, but it is never too late to turn your life over (or around) and commit yourself to love. It is never too late! What about all that sacrifice? Is that really worth it? True warriors, having made such sacrifices, will tell you that what they abandoned, or gave up, thinking of them as sacrifices at the time, were actually shortcomings, character defects, and liabilities that only masqueraded as assets and valuable possessions. Today, the true warrior is glad to have been rid of them!
You are warriors, and with love and a power greater than yourself at your side, you can do no wrong.