To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

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

Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in variant forms is kind of an unhappy condition, because it doesn't last.

The problem is that the dictator of the tonal wants to eliminate the mystery of life.

I never considered myself to be essentially different from anyone else. Although I knew I was.

There comes a time when a race of beings makes a decision. When they chose to reject enlightenment, it's the end of their world because the karma is inevitable. They have to destroy themselves.

Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.