A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness.

All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people.

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. -- Don Juan.

A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.

Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.

If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.

Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.

A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.