This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it

When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

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

Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.

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

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?