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You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small
The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.
For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.
The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.
Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.
We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.
This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.
Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?
It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.
One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.
If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.
Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.
To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.
Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it
Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.
You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.
It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.
A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.
It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.
In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.
The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.
A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.
Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?
When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.
If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
You see all of us go through the same doubts. We are afraid of being mad; unfortunately for us, of course, all of us are already mad.
A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.
Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.
The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!
Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.
The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.
...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.
Fright never injures anyone. What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do
Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.
Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.
Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked