I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
As soon as they were alone, Ioan__ face softened. __o what do I owe this pleasure, Christian?_ __e are in need of an army._ __one,_ Ioan said without hesitation. __y men are yours._ __e__l have to go back through the Holy Land,_ Phantom said. __hat bothers me not._ It was Adara__ turn to frown at the man__ blasé acceptance of their mission. __on__ you want to know why we need your army?_ Ioan shrugged. __ assume it is to fight._ __ye,_ she said slowly, __ut don__ you want to know why you__e fighting?_ __ am fighting because Brother Christian needs me._-Ioan, Christian, Phantom, & Adara
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As soon as they were alone, Ioan__ face softened. __o what do I owe this pleasure, Christian?_ __e are in need of an army._ __one,_ Ioan said without hesitation. __y men are yours._ __e__l have to go back through the Holy Land,_ Phantom said. __hat bothers me not._ It was Adara__ turn to frown at the man__ blasé acceptance of their mission. __on__ you want to know why we need your army?_ Ioan shrugged. __ assume it is to fight._ __ye,_ she said slowly, __ut don__ you want to know why you__e fighting?_ __ am fighting because Brother Christian needs me._-Ioan, Christian, Phantom, & Adara
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Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
A vine from one tree shot out, tripping Blaise. He and Merewyn rolled to the ground. Varian stood between them and the trees, which shot blast after blast at him. He deflected them, but even so the heat from the fire was scorching. 'Go, Blaise,' he said. 'Get Merewyn out of here.'Blaise nodded before he crawled to Merewyn under the barrage.'Hold!'The blast stopped as the three of them froze into place.Again the woman appeared in the fire to stare at them maliciously. 'What is it you do?''I'm crawling,' Blaise answered.
You will know it is love when the need can't be met by yourself or God.
The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and courage. The loyalty in this case is of two degrees or commitments: first, to the chosen adventure, but then, also, to the ideals of the order of knighthood. Now, this second commitment seems to put Gawain's way in opposition to the way of the Buddha, who when ordered by the Lord of Duty to perform the social duties proper to his caste, simply ignored the command, and that night achieved illumination as well as release from rebirth. Gawain is a European and, like Odysseus, who remained true to the earth and returned from the Island of the Sun to his marriage with Penelope, he has accepted, as the commitment of his life, not release from but loyalty to the values of life in this world. And yet, as we have just seen, whether following the middle way of the Buddha or the middle way of Gawain, the passage to fulfillment lies between the perils of desire and fear.