Belief

You know why they can't hurt me, don't you?

Why they can't touch me?

Why I am safer here, doing this, than anywhere else?

Belief.

Doubt saps the will.

Doubt weakens the spirit.

The man who is pure of thought,

pure of heart,

the man without doubt,

that man

is a dangerous man.

Because doubt is weakness.

Doubt is thinking about home, when you should be

watching where you step.

Doubt wonders, doubt questions, doubt blinds you

when you should be watching their hands

the set of their shoulders

the way a man of arms carries himself.

Doubt leaves you empty and wrung out and tired

and you make mistakes.

Without doubt, without fear, with

absolute confidence,

with a laughing disregard for danger,

with the strength and surety

of knowing

knowing

utterly

that who you are,

and what you do

is right

and those who stand behind you

love you

utterly,

with these things

a man can do anything.

Without doubt.

Without fear.

With absolute belief.