Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.

In the Art of Dreaming Don Juan tells Carlos, "... most of our energy goes into upholding our importance... if we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us. One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and two we would provide ourselves with enough energy to ... catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe."

One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.

We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do.