The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!

We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue

We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.

A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

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