It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us

Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on