Samurai.

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I have no parents: I make the heavens and earth my parents.

 

I have no home: I make awareness my home.

 

I have no life or death: I make the tides of breathing my life and death.

 

I have no divine power: I make honesty my divine power.

 

I have no means: I make understanding my means.

 

I have no magic secrets: I make character my magic secret.

 

I have no body: I make endurance my body.

 

I have no eyes: I make the flash of lightening my eyes.

 

I have no limbs: I make promptness my limbs.

 

I have no ears: I make sensibility my ears.

 

I have no strategy: I make " un shadowed by thought " my strategy.

 

I have no designs: I make " seizing the opportunity by the forelock " my

designs.

 

I have no miracles: I make right-action my miracle.

 

I have no principles: I make adaptability to all circumstances my

principles.

 

I have no tactics: I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.

 

I have no talents: I make ready wit my talent.

 

I have no friends: I make my mind my friend.

 

I have no enemy: I make carelessness my enemy.

 

I have no armor: I make benevolence and righteousness my armor.

 

I have no castle: I make immovable mind my castle.

 

I have no sword: I make absence of self my sword.

 

- 14th Century Anonymous Samurai.

 

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