For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here...
We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.
Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.
A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.
There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn’t do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.
A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.
In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.
Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self.
Self-importance requires spending most of one’s life offended by something or someone.
You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
Self importance is man’s greatest enemy.
To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t’ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.
Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use.
Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.
For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length – and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.
Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.
A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.
For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.