A Simple Life

The warrior-goddess lives a simple, unencumbered life. In order to conserve energy it is necessary to live a simple life without excessive attachment to material objects. If one is too attached, she becomes imprisoned by the continual financial and physical maintenance of the objects and the maintenance of her identity in the objects.

When these things become chains that bind her, she is no longer free. She cannot follow the call of her heart (and perhaps leave a job that is soul-deadening) because every waking hour is devoted to the maintenance of the objects and paying the bills in order to continue financing them.

Ask yourself, who would you be without your comfortable home, your car, your possessions? If the thought of "losing everything" frightens you, then you are a prisoner. Your warden is the fear and the guards are the objects.