... 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

This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to 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

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.

...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control