It is very important that your career raises your awareness. If your career is lowering your personal power, then it has got to change.

Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.

One day you wake up and you decide you want to be different. You want a different life. You are tired of your old life. This is the truth. You will a change.

In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling.

If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.

When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.

Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel I am a beginner, always; because it's true.