The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

Crows are not always available to give warning.

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so,believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.