“A warrior of light sometimes—quite unintentionally—takes a false step and finds himself plunging into the abyss.
Ghosts terrify him, and solitude torments him. Having always sought the Good Fight, he never imagined that this would happen to him, but it does. Shrouded in darkness, he communicates with his master.
‘Master, I have fallen into the abyss,’ he says. ‘The waters are deep and dark.’
‘Remember one thing,’ replies the master. ‘You drown not by falling into the river, but by staying submerged in it.’
And the warrior uses all his strength to leave the situation in which he finds himself.”
— Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light
