A warrior, on the other hand, is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. But once his calculations are over he acts. He lets go. That's abandon.

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.

The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.

The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.