The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.

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.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.

You see all of us go through the same doubts. We are afraid of being mad; unfortunately for us, of course, all of us are already mad.