... 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

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.

All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.

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

Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.

When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.