Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional. He is turned is back to the world of the foreboding and the exulting and has welcomed the world of boredom.

A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.

Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.

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

Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.