What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

My benefactor told me that my father and mother had lived and died just to have me, and that their own parents had done the same for them. He said that warriors were different in that they shift their assemblage points enough to realize the tremendous price that has been paid for their lives. This shift gives them the respect and awe that their parents never felt for life in general, or for being alive in particular.

Your problems is that you think you have time.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

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 trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.