Power comes from leading a controlled life, a happy life, a perky life.

You exist someplace else, and when you can contact yourself in that other place, when you can open up a kind of inter-dimensional phone line between yourself and our various selves, when you have become aware of that, that's when magic begins.

I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

There are many, many different worlds. Just as there are different continents on earth, there are different dimensional planes.

The mind must be made calm and still. Then it is aimed at the sky, at the brightness, at that infinitude of being that stretches out endlessly in every direction forever.

A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.

In the training process, the teacher addresses two sides of your being. One is the tonal and one is the nagual.