Episode 498 The Warriors Path to greatness

Carlos Castaneda said,

to be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one.

It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives.

Nobody is born a warrior.

In exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man.

You make ourselves into one or the other.

Have you ever wondered what it takes for an average person to become great?

Maybe you look at him and say he was privileged.

That person was given everything and it was handed to him on a silver platter.

You think yes, that is why it is easy for him to be successful.

Or maybe you look at her and see the horrible pain and suffering she has overcome and think

that is why she is successful because her burden became her blessing because she has

a story to tell which makes it easy for her to sell.

Do you think you were born for something bigger, something spectacular, some greater purpose?

Or was greatness meant only for the select few?

Harriet Tubman was once an average slave girl and was horribly injured as a young woman.

Yet she went on to lead thousands to freedom as she said every great dream begins with a dreamer.

There was once an average baby girl that fell mysteriously ill and was struck blind, dumb and mute.

That young girl grew up to be Helen Keller and she said,

the only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

And then there is a story of the average doctor who became a holocaust survivor and eventually

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