And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.

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.

The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.

If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.

Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world.

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.