If you can be agreeable to each and every person or situation with which you come into contact - no matter how "difficult" it is or how much you think you are in the "right" - then you are demonstrating control.

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

People think that by getting in touch with some being outside the body, it will solve their problems. This only creates problems. It won't help you a bit.

Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.

To perfect your nature doesn't mean to have some idea of what a perfect person is and to simply be that. That doesn't work.

What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.

Another condition can be attained ... a condition of ecstasy. A condition so far from what the people of planet Earth experience it's not even discussable.