Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.

Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.

Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere.

Now here is a key: you want to make it real and present in the realm of your consciousness. You don't say "I'm going to do such and such" - it already has happened. Now, is consciousness real? It exists and it is very powerful. The idea is to have this mesh between your consciousness - your visualization - and the so-called material world.

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm.

Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food and for love, love and lust. For us, a prime symbol of sexuality is the automobile. For the ancients it was the chase, the foot race. Satyr and nymph, maiden and god, hot pursuit. The mythic hunters, Diana and Atalanta, available only to the males, men or gods, who could outrun them; death to all others.