Sharing some of Paulo Coelho's work "Warrior of the Light" as it's ringing true for me and may for others. 

The experienced fighter puts up with insults; he knows the strength of his fist and the skill of his blows. Confronted by an unprepared opponent, he looks deep into his eyes and conquers him without ever having to resort to a physical fight.
(PUL) the power of love.

As the warrior learns from his spiritual master, the light of faith shines in his eyes and he does not need to prove anything to anyone. He is not bothered by his opponent's aggressive arguments which say the God is superstition, that miracles are just tricks, that believing in angels is running away from reality.
Like the fighter, the warrior of the light is aware of his own immense strength; he never fights with anyone who does not deserve the honor of combat.
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there are forces assisting us now to overcome our differences in this day and age. This board is one of those places to do that.

with that, I repeat one more phrase from this most helpful book

"The warrior is free. He knows that an open oven bakes no bread."

Stay strong. As a group consciousness we have just begun to slide into the 4rth dimension of balanced non-reactionary awareness.

hey thanks for your response Oliver: this is an easy read and you're right the fight is with the internal forces within, not outside, the battle is about keeping faithful to what you know is true, your basic goodness grounded in faith.

heres something about faith, we've been discussing faith a bit here:

The warrior of the Light never forgets the old saying; the good little goat doesn't bleat.

Injustices happen. Everyone finds themselves in situations they do not deserve, usually when they are unable to defend themselves. Defeat often knocks at the warriors door. At such times, he remains silent. He does not (or she) waste energy in words, because they can do nothing. He knows it is best to use his strength to have patience, resisting the impulse to give into despair. He knows Someone is watching, Someone who saw the unnecessary suffering and who will not accept it.

That Someone gives him what he needs most: time. Sooner or later everything will work in his favor. A warrior of the light is wise: he does not need to talk about his defeats.
You, Oliver, are a good example of a fine warrior of the light. my opinion.
keep up the good work. love, alysia

'Shambhala the Sacred Path of the Warrior' by Chogyam Trungpa captures much of this perspective too Alysia. As you know. 

Put simply we can live in the 'setting sun' world of competing egos and organisations, thus condemning ourselves and others to misery, and the world to a slide to becoming a hell.

The warrior, having gained an inkling of it's reality through meditation and other spiritual work bravely sets out to develop and expand the higher vision that recognises the world (ourselves and the external reality we experience - which are essentially the same) as inherently loving and benign.

The view of this vision is that provided we gain the confidence to drop the ego driven drama and come to live naturally (from our natural wisdom and compassion, through 'flow') in the moment that everything works out fine. (Chirstianity often expresses this view as trusting that God is in control, that whatever happens it's for the best)

It's warriorship in that this is not an easy path. Most of our conditioning is to be selfish, is setting sun. In this situation warriorship requires developing mindfulness. Observing our behaviour so that we catch ourselves inclined to do something we shouldn't when faced with a situation.

Most of the time our conditioning is so dominant that we don't even get the insight - we're driven straight into wrong actions. When we do the selfish response is to suppress it, and go with our conditioning anyway.

The warrior is brave enough to rest in the insight, to truly feel it. To lean into it, so to speak while remaining light and open. And to then dare to act on the higher impulse that this lightness lets through. Others seeing this respond in kind. And so we build a beautiful reality for ourselves and others.

Maintaining the lightness, space and openness is the hard bit - meditation is the key to attaining this mind state. Without it the goodness (our basic wisdom and compassion) struggle to shine through and we end up stuck in the goldfish bowl.

We act selfishly towards others, and they respond in kind. Thus reinforcing our certainty that this is how the world is, and so we do the same only with even more certainty and less care for others. And so end up in a hell of our own making. When it could have been a heaven...

Even working hard on it we sometimes get it right, and other times wrong. But it gets easier with experience.

This is the basic secular/non-Buddhist training course offered by Shambhala which seeks to teach meditation and establish this view in us: http://www.shambhala.org/shambhala-training.php

Chogyam Trungpa was a very magic bunny!! He was famous when teaching and when people voiced a lack of confidence in their ability to act on teachings for coming out with 'go on, you can do it' in his high and squeaky voice.

The sequence of through mindfulness becoming able to stay with insight, go with our higher/intuitive response  to it and dare to act on our higher impulse as outlined above is about the most fundamental process there is in spirituality.

It's no less than how we awaken, how we move towards realisation. The alternative is to stay locked in the cocoon, the goldfish bowl of our selfish and selective perception. 'The world of the setting sun.'

The insight is the magic bit. Becoming aware of an insight and daring to act is a conscious process, but we've no idea where insight actually comes from. It just floats into awareness...

It's taught it comes from God consciousness/the true nature of mind shining through our obscuration and delusion...