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How often we are envied, hated, and attacked in direct and passive-aggressive ways even as we seek to unfold who we really are in all our beauty, maturity, creativity, and generativity! The more beautiful, competent, and creative we become, the more we seem to invite the hostility of our superiors, or even of our peers. What we are really being attacked by is the immaturity in human beings who are terrified of our advances on the road toward masculine or feminine fullness of being.

We, like the duckling that mistakes a cat for its mother, mistake our actual parents for the ideal patterns and potentials within us.

The drug dealer, the ducking and diving political leader, the wife beater, the chronically “crabby” boss, the “hot shot” junior executive, the unfaithful husband, the company “yes man,” the indifferent graduate school adviser, the “holier than thou” minister, the gang member, the father who can never find the time to attend his daughter’s school programs, the coach who ridicules his star athletes, the therapist who unconsciously attacks his clients’“shining” and seeks a kind of gray normalcy for them, the yuppie— all these men have something in common. They are all boys pretending to be men. They got that way honestly, because nobody showed them what a mature man is like.

The Warrior traditions all affirm that , in addition to training, what enables a Warrior to reach clarity of thought is living with the awareness of his own imminent death.

There is “no time” for anything but meaningful acts if we live with death as “our eternal companion.”.

The man who becomes obsessed with “succeeding” has already failed. He is desperately trying to repress the Masochist within him, yet he is already displaying masochistic and self-punishing behaviors.

The traditional Jewish prayer books still include, as part of the preliminary morning service, the sentence “Blessed art thou, Lord our God, King of the universe, who hast not made me a woman.”.

Aggressiveness is a stance toward life that rouses, energizes, and motivates. It pushes us to take the offensive and to move out of a defensive or “holding” position about life’s tasks and problems.

Scope out the opposition and get most of the cards on the table. Forewarned is forearmed.