When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals featuring pentagrams, swords, and invocations. That's fine, people need to give free reign to their imagination and to go through certain stages. Anyone who gets through those stages without being deceived will eventually get in touch with the Tradition.

He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.

Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality."

Don't think about what you've left behind... everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.

I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life.

Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).