The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.
Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
Seeing energy as it flows is an imperious need on the path of knowledge. Ultimately, all the effort of sorcerers is guided to that end. It is not enough for a warrior to know that the universe is energy; he has to verify it for himself.
When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.
Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.
A warrior doesn’t know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one’s acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.
The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don’t do.
Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.
Burn your bridges every 2 years.
The sorcerer’s description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.
It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself – reflective expectations.
It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us.
Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.
Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.
The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.
If a warrior wants to pay back for all the favors he has received, and he has no one in particular to address his payment to, he can address it to the spirit of man, That’s always a very small account, and whatever one puts in it is more than enough.
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.
The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.
In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.