Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence.

You're thinking that you shouldn't have sex because you're celibate. So you just keep thinking about sex instead of enlightenment.

The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

When you can successfully stop thought for longer periods of time, you do move into other worlds. This can also happen in the very beginning, if a person meditates with someone who is very advanced.

Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are.

The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus.

The big problem with power, of course, is obsession. Once you get some of it and feel it, it dominates your whole life and it's all you can think about. That doesn't have to happen.