A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of socialization is to convince us that the descriptions we agree upon define the limits of the real world. What we call reality is only one way of seeing the world, a way that is supported by social consensus.