The following quotations are taken from Return of the Warriors:

 

Truth is more important than public belief, and any man who feels the need to adjust his knowledge so as to receive public approval is a man unworthy of trust---Theun Mares

The warrior is a man who has learned to love life and all the many richnesses it brings him-most of all, the path where he walks. There is for the warrior no greater joy than to walk a path with a heart. On this path he walks, thrilled by the wonder of it all, and in his joy he gives thanks in his heart for this marvelous privilege by embracing everything he encounters with love and gratitude.----Carlos Castaneda

THE RAVEN by Edgar Allan Poe

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  • There is a mysterious force known as intent, which exists throughout the entire universe. It is this force which brings about perception, for it is intent which, firstly, aligns the energy fields, and secondly, causes awareness..
  • The goal of warriors is to experience all possible perceptions available to man. This constitutes what is known as total awareness, inherent within which is an alternate way of dying.

    • ------Old Toltec teaching, author anonymous

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    The deed is everything, its repute nothing.—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of actual life springs ever green.----JW von Goethe

    ‘Tis the good reader that makes a good book.—Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word catching.—RW Emerson

  • To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.--------------William Blake

    • It takes two to tell the truth-one to tell it, and one to hear it.----Henry David Thoreau

    The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.—Oscar Wilde

    Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of style.—Jonathan Swift

    I think continually of those who were truly great, The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire’s center. Born of the Sun they traveled a short while towards the Sun, And left the vivid air signed with their honor.---Stephen Spender

    The man who listens to Reason is lost; Reason Enslaves all whose minds are not string enough to master her.----Bernard Shaw

    The reasonable man adapts himself to his world, The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt The world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends On the unreasonable man.-----Bernard Shaw

    A man of great common sense and good taste—meaning thereby, a man without originality or moral courage.---Bernard Shaw

    The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing about.---Blaise Pascal

    Tho’ we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it within us or we find it not.---Blaise Pascal

    By your choice, dwell you now in the world which you have created. That which you hold deepest in your heart, is, and what you most admire, That shall you become. --- Richard Bach

    Some people are so sincerely wrong.—Walt Whitman

    A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal….Oscar Wilde

    ‘Tis not the dying for a faith that is so hard, Every man of every nation has done that. ‘Tis the living up to it that is difficult.----William Thackery

    I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.----George Bernard Shaw

    I think what a joy it is to be alive, and I wonder if I’ll ever leap inward to the root of this flesh And know myself as I once was. The root is there. Whether any act of mine can find it, that remains tangled in the future. But all things a man can do, are mine. Any act of mine may do it.---Frank Herbert

    There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.---Frank Herbert

    Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And when we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. .----Nelson Mandela

    And finally……..

    I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property, and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to love the world, and no longer compare it with some kind of desired imaginary world, some imaginary vision of perfection, but to leave it as it is, to love it and be glad to belong to it. This stone is a stone; it is also animal, God and Buddha. I do not respect and love it because it was one thing and will become something else, but because it has already long been everything and always is everything. I love it just because it is a stone, because today and now it appears to me a stone.—Hermann Hesse

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