To die with elation is a crappy way of dying... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it.

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world.

How can I know who I am when I am all this?

The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.