Pain is part of the beauty of the now. Pain, when experienced in long moments of time is like a fire burning in the soul. It burns and consumes the oxygen of self love with terrifying speed threatening to turn us into cold ashes. But then the cycle turns and the pain becomes sadness and one is capable of deeper reflection. By accepting the pain and sadness that you feel in the moment you enter the moment with your heart and become fully authentic and alive. Accepting that pain is an act of moral courage. Our darker thoughts and feelings, and the realities they may correspond to, are not easy to accept as what's so. But when we do accept what's so and continue to act mindfully we become a Warrior. This is the true test and making of a Warrior. How you chose to handle the problem of being when the setting sun of the West burns you with its radioactive rays and your spirit is nauseous and oppressed by flickering shadows. How well do you act toward others while you may happen to be mutating and decomposing at the same time? The Warrior must act impeccably under all circumstances, inner or outer. The Warrior must maintain balance while dark inner chaos whirls about like winds howling in radioactive ruins after the end of the world.