If a warrior needs solace he simply chooses anyone and expresses to that person every detail of his turmoil. After all, the warrior is not seeking to be understood or helped; by talking he’s merely relieving himself of his pressure.
One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.
My benefactor used to say the seeds are the ‘sober head’ – the only part that could fortify the heart of man.
Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on.
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!
This very rock where we’re sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it.
For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.
I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.
How can I know who I am when I am all this?
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.
Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.
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.
Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I. Don Juan Matus.
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.
A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn’t know where his death is going to find him.
The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it.