Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on

It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.

The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue

The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.

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