If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.
Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.
The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
It is important to have a perspective then only through seeing the world is it possible to transcend ideas such as the Flyers, and other aberrant thought forms. With ruthlessness, cunning patience and sweetness, it can be cracked.
Leave Jesus on the cross. He’s very happy there!
Crows are not always available to give warning.
The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.
I’m afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.
I’m never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don’t feel that way any longer.
Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.
To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.
The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.
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.
To seek the perfection of the warrior’s spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.
Learn to see, and then you’ll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.
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?
Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?
There’s no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal.