Apart from the vital importance of gleaning every gift of power from all of our life experiences, unless we can also learn to see the folly in our behavior patterns, we will simply continue to re-enact our folly instead of truly living. Words are powerful tools for a warrior, for they literally shape our world. We therefore learn how a warrior approaches the correct use of words. We are all creatures of habit. Therefore, it is often not enough simply to achieve clarity on a particular issue.
Hunters are masters of stalking their prey.
Our biggest prey is our self-destructive behavior, and warriors learn first and foremost to stalk their behavior. However, because it is easier to see the faults in other people, we start by learning to stalk the behavior of others. For the warrior, the whole world is nothing more than a mirror of potential behavior that exists within us, whether this is past, present, or future behavior. Therefore, by using the concept of mirrors, we first learn to recognize, and then we change in ourselves, the damaging behavior we see reflected, for the truth is that we can never change other people, only ourselves. Naturally, with a correct application of this technique, the need to judge others also quickly falls away.