Self-Discovery and Personal Growth: The Knight’s Journey
**Sam:** Unlocking Inner Wisdom
Sam is the inner voice of the gentleman, offering guidance, helping him find his way, and teaching him to listen to himself.
Biography of Robert Fisher
Robert Fisher began his career at age 19, writing for Groucho Marx on his national radio program. He is the author or co-author of 400 radio comedy shows and received an Emmy for the series *Danny Thomas*. He has also been nominated four times for a Humanitas Prize.
Fisher’s first book, *The Knight with Rusty Armor*, has sold more than one million copies and has had a major impact on the lives of people of all ages. He is currently working on two television series: one adventure and one comedy.
Since *Jonathan Livingston Seagull* enchanted millions of readers around the world, no story has appeared capable of awakening the imagination so powerfully and connecting with the reader as deeply as *The Knight with Rusty Armor*.
If you need to remember that life and humans are good, if you need to know the importance of loving yourself, read *The Knight with Rusty Armor*. When you finish, you will know you are wonderful.
Important Phrases from *The Knight with Rusty Armor***
- “You can run and learn at the same time.”
- “Life is good when one accepts it.”
- “A gift, to be a gift, must be accepted. Otherwise, it is like a burden.”
- “People do not generally perceive the path they are on.”
- “When you learn to accept rather than expect, you will have fewer disappointments.”
- “Animals accept, people expect.”
- “Everyone understands crusades, but very few understand the truth.”
- “Most people are trapped in a bundle.”
- “As I know myself, I can know you. We are all part of one another.”
- “Maybe what you have learned here is that you have all the time in the world.”
- “Have you ever confused love with need?”
- “You can only love others to the extent that you love yourself.”
- “Merlin once said that knowledge of oneself could kill the Dragon of Fear and Doubt.”
- “Fear and doubt are illusions.”
- “Although this world I possess,
- I own nothing
- because I cannot know the unknown
- If I cling to the familiar.”
- “The recognition that he was the cause, not the effect, gave him a new sense of power. He had no fear.”
- “I almost died for all the tears I did not spill.”
Personal Reflection on *The Knight with Rusty Armor***
I liked this book a lot, and I learned many things, like if you do not know yourself, you cannot know others. It is very difficult to truly know yourself, and that can only be achieved through meditation.
The book seems like an allegory of life. We put up something alien to us, in part to win over others—studies, looks, clothes—and make them so natural to us that they become a second skin. And nobody is surprised because everyone has armor, worked on for years.
I think the book is very well-structured because it tells us how the knight is evolving:
- “The path of truth led him to stand in front of his life without hesitation, to get to ask such questions as ‘Who am I?’, ‘What do I want?’, or ‘What am I looking for?’. He must pass through the castle of silence: no noise, no voices, no friends. One is ahead of itself. This test for the knight is harder than many battles. Daring to be alone and let all its dissatisfactions speak for themselves!”
- “In the castle of knowledge, the gentleman should take a step of understanding: the heart has begun to feel, to understand that something goes wrong in your life, but now his head has to understand.”
- “In the Castle of Will and Boldness is where he has to face the fears that oppose the radical change that is proposed… to reach the top of truth.”
The book is very readable since the vocabulary is very modern. The book is short, and the story is not too heavy to read.