Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.

That's your doing. Now in order to affect that doing I am going to recommend that you learn another doing... It may hook you to another doing and then you may realize that both doings are lies, unreal, and that to hinge yourself to either one is a waste of time, because the only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. To arrive at that being is the note-doing of the self

Whenever you are in the world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for irrational crap. But whenever you are in the world of the nagual, you should also be impeccable; no time for rational crap. For the warrior intent is the gate in between. It closes completely behind him when he goes either way

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.