What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds.

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.

...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

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