... that a warrior, aware of the unfathomable mystery that surrounds him and aware of his duty to try to unravel it, takes his rightful place among mysteries and regards himself as one. Consequently, for a warrior there is no end to the mystery of being, whether being means being a pebble, or an ant, or oneself. That is a warrior's humbleness. One is equal to everything.

A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everythingneeded for the extravagant journey that is his life. What countsfor a warrior is being alive. Life in itself is sufficient,self-explanatory and complete.Therefore, one may say without being presumptuous that theexperience of experiences is being alive.

There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

Whenever you are in the world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for irrational crap. But whenever you are in the world of the nagual, you should also be impeccable; no time for rational crap. For the warrior intent is the gate in between. It closes completely behind him when he goes either way

...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.