You Are Like You Are, Because You

It Is Best To Erase All Personal History Because That Would Make Us Free From The Encumbering Thoughts Of Other People

It Is Important To Do What You Don't Know How To Do. It Is Important To See Your Skills As Keeping You From Learning What Is Deepest And Most Mysterious. If You Know How To Focus, Unfocus. If Your Tendency Is To Make Sense Out Of Chaos, Start Chaos.

The Hardest Thing In The World Is For A Warrior To Let Others Be.

What Is Wrong With Us Human Beings, And Has Been Wrong Since Time Immemorial, Is That Without Ever Stating It In So Many Words, We Believe That We Have Entered The Realm Of Immortality. We Behave As If We Are Never Going To Die - An Infantile Arrogance. But Even More Injurious Than This Sense Of Immortality Is What Comes With It : The Sense That We Can Engulf This Inconcievable Universe With Our Minds.

Intent Is Not A Thought, Or An Object, Or A Wish. Intent Is What Can Make A Man Succeed When His Thoughts Tell Him That He Is Defeated. It Operates In Spite Of The Warrior's Indulgence. Intent Is What Makes Him Invulnerable. Intent Is What Sends A Shaman Through A Wall, Through Space, To Infinity.