For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

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

Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.

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

Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.

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.

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