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.
Carlos CastanedaIf a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
Carlos CastanedaIntent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
Carlos CastanedaWhen a warrior has put an end to his routines, when he doesn't care anymore whether he has company or is alone, because he has heard the silent whisper of the spirit; then you can say that, truly, he has died. From that point on, even the simplest things in life become extraordinary for him.
Carlos Castaneda