It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry.

...one should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual.

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!

The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.