... the daily world exists because we know how to hold its images; consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the world collapses

A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.

Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge.

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.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self.