The warrior never fights for themselves; they fight only for others. They never use what they do not have as an excuse, they never use the overwhelming nature of the challenge as an escape, and they are never surprised when faced with unexpected and undeserved opposition. The enemy that we tend to expect is like the powerful king who came and seized the city. The enemies we rarely speak of are the ones within us—those that would cause us to live in fear and so paralyze us that we would rather live a life of oppression than pay the price for freedom. We would expect an enemy king and his
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