Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

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

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

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.

One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.