You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

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

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

Men have to be hooked. Women don't need that. Women go freely into anything. That's their power and at the same time their drawback. Men have to be led and women have to be contained

You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power.

The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.