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

It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

Crows are not always available to give warning.

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.

For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himselfand others. He doesn't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.

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!