You have little time left, and none of it for crap. A fine state. I would say that the best of us always comes out when we are against the wall, when we feel the sword dangling overhead. Personally, I wouldn’t have it any other way.
A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.
We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.
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.
It is important to do what you don’t know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
Things don’t change, only the way you look at them.
A warrior knows that he is only a man. His only regret is that his life is so short that he can’t grab onto all the things he would like to. But for him, this is not an issue; it’s only a pity.
Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around.
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.
You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
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.
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.
Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.
Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional. He has turned his back to the world of the foreboding and the exulting and has welcomed the world of boredom.
A warrior, on the other hand, is a hunter. He calculates everything. That’s control. But once his calculations are over he acts. He lets go. That’s abandon.
We don’t need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.
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.