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Author: [[Robert S. de Ropp]] Full Title: Warrior’s Way Category: #books Chapter One WARRIORS AND SLAVES I learned that all life games can be played either in the spirit of the Warrior or in the spirit of the slave. My life games were determined by the predilections of the various members of my ship of fools. The author dreamed of writing books. The scientist dreamed of performing experiments. So each of the crew members had his own game. I realized, again rather early, that I was far more slave than Warrior, and that if I ever wished to master my own fate, I would have to train myself to stop behaving slavishly. Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting. (Thus Spake Zarathustra) Insofar as we are slaves, we are crucified daily, subjected to pain, degradation, and inner death. But the god in us, our Warrior spirit, can rise above this degradation, can unite with something greater than itself and bring forth fruit on a different level of being.

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Warrior’s Way by Robert S. de Ropp presents wisdom from the contemplative traditions.

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