The Amethyst Fist was an order of monks who base their lives on the Philosophica Gasgana and the concept described in the final paragraph.

If so, it is confidence in your own mental and physical abilities, and a sense of self-reliance that will do it for you. Respect others, but make you soul your own, and make yourself in the image of the soul that you would like to be. Know yourself and your environment, and learn to be honestly confident, and competent, wherever you find yourself. Then, when the time for your journey to judgement day comes, you may have enough about you to take control of your own destiny.