Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on

All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess, to pick it up.

...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

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