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.

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.

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.

Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.