The blood of heroes flows through your veins. It has traveled many generations to get to you and expects you to continue its legacy.

With your heroic blood, do not get caught up in the physical and forget your true nature. "You do not have a soul. You are a soul, you have a body." The essence of our rational mind has its origins in the Divine, yet indeed we know nothing other than what it means to be intimately tied to our moral bodies. What seems like a contradiction is instead a mystery to unravel.

Just as the blood of our heroic ancestors empowers our bodies, the ancient wisdom of our ancestors enlightens our minds. Our senses, cognition, and memories as we know them are all inseparably connected to material flesh, yet, all we actually experience is wholly transcendent and immaterial. Our consciousness is not a product of matter, rather the illusion of the material world is a creation of our minds. Everything we truly know is consciousness; that is our essence. With that knowledge we can begin to know God, in whose image we are made.

All is mental, the universe is mental...

As above, so below; as within, so without...

Meditation is an important part of most spiritual disciplines, whether it be in the form of active prayer, laboring, or silent contemplation. It allows the mind to focus itself on anything it may choose without the body distracting it. The timeless idea of momento mori or "remember death" is a call to contemplate one's mortality. To meditate on this is to carry around that awareness of our inevitable death so we may act more prudently in the short lives we are given. In this manner we can meditate on anything we choose and have it fill our awareness so that it will in turn affect ourselves; we have the power to change ourselves simply by thinking about it.