A Warrior's Life

E.) A WARRIOR'S LIFE
8. ACTING AS A WARRIOR

THE NATURE OF ONE'S ACTS WAS UNIMPORTANT AS LONG AS ONE ACTED AS A WARRIOR
the nature of one's acts was unimportant as long as one acted as a warrior...if I really felt that my spirit was distorted I should simply fix it-purge it, make it perfect-because there was no other task in our entire lives which was more worthwhile. not to fix the spirit was to seek death, and that was the same as to seek nothing, since death was going to overtake us regardless of anything. JTI,108. To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our manhood. JTI,109

A WARRIOR HAS NO CHOICE EXCEPT TO ACT LIKE A WARRIOR BECAUSE HE IS LIKE A SLAVE OF POWER
Power sets up those limits and a warrior is, let's say, a prisoner of power; a prisoner who has one free choice; the choice to act either like an impeccable warrior, or to act like an ass. In the final analysis, perhaps the warrior is not a prisoner but a slave of power, because that choice is no longer a choice for him. TOP,190. the fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. TOP,277...the only freedom warriors have is to behave impeccably. SRP,247.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTS

YOU MUST ASSUME THE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY ACT EVEN FOR THE MOST TRIVIAL.
You may go any place you wish, but if you do, you must assume the full responsibility for that act. A warrior lives his life strategically. He would attend a party or reunion like that only if his stategy calls for it. That means, of course, that he would be in total control and would perform all the acts that he deems necessary. JTI,227.....a warrior takes responsibility for his acts; for the most trivial of his acts. You act out your thoughts and that's wrong. SR,133. when a man decides to do something he must go all the way..but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them. JTI,39....everything I do is my decision and my responsibility. The simplest thing I do, to take you for a walk in the desert...may very well mean my death. Death is stalking me. Therefore I have no room for doubts or remorse. If I have to die as a result of taking you for a walk, then I must die....you, on the other hand, feel that you are immortal and the decisions of an immortal man can be canceled or regretted or doubted. In a world where death..there is not time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions. JTI,40....You have been complaining all your life because you don't assume responsibility for your decisions....to assume the responsibility of one's decisions means that one is ready to die for them. It doesn't matter what the decision is..nothing could be more or less serious than anything else. Don't you see? In a world where death is the hunter there are no small or big decisions. There are only decisions that we make in the face of our inevitable death. JTI,43.

JUST DO IT/ A WARRIOR ACTS RATHER THAN TALKS

WORDS MAKE US FEEL ENLIGHTENED BUT FAIL US WHEN WE HAVE TO ACT
That's the 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. TOP,29

A WARRIOR ACTS RATHER THAN TALKS
....the only thing that counted was action acting instead of talking...JTI,39. One learns to act like a warrior by acting, not by talking. SR,144. Only by acting can one become a sorcerer. SR,261...Genaro and I are acting from here....he said pointing to one of the centers of radiation in his diagram. And it is not the center of understanding, yet you know what it is. SR,261,262...For this reason, a sorcerer seeks to act rather than to talk and to this effect he gets a new description of the world- a new description where talking is not that important, and where new acts have new reflections. TOP,29. learning through conversation was not only a waste, but stupidity, because learning was the most difficult task a man could undertake. He asked me to remember the time I had tried to find my spot, and how I wanted to find it without doing any work because I had expected him to hand out all the information. if he had done so... I would have never learned. But, knowing how difficult it was to find my spot, and above all, knowing that it existed, would give me a unique sense of confidence. He said that while I remained rooted to my good spot nothing could cause me bodily harm, because I had the assurance that at that particular spot I was at my very best. I had the power to shove off anything that might be harmful to me. TDJ,54 .....Every time a man sets himself to learn he has to labour as hard as I did to find that spot, and the limits of his learning are determined by his own nature. Thus he saw no point in talking about knowledge. TDJ,54

ACTS GIVE US CONFIDENCE WHICH ALLOWS US TO CLAIM KNOWLDEGE AS POWER
If, however, he had told me where it was, I would never have had the confidence needed to claim it as true knowledge. Thus knowledge was indeed power. TDJ,54. Without self-confidence, one would have been incapable of fulfilling one of the most important aspects of the teachings: the capacity to claim knowledge as power. TDJ,197.

SOME KNOWLEDGE IS TOO POWERFUL TO TALK ABOUT ANYWAY
. ..he said that certain kinds of knowledge were too powerful for the strength I had, and to talk about them would only bring harm to me. TDJ,55

A WARRIOR SHOULD BE BALANCED

A WARRIOR SHOULD MEET ANY SITUATION BALANCED
the challenge of a warrior is to arrive at a very subtle balance of positive and negative forces. this challenge does not mean a warrior should strive to have everything under control, but that a warrior should strive to meet any conceivable situation, the expected and the unexpected, with equal efficiency. EG,307 ...A warrior starts off with the certainty that his spirit is off balance; then by living in full control and awareness, but without hurry or compulsion, he does his ultimate best to gain this balance. TOP,31..as in the case of every man ...your imbalance was due to the sum total of all your actions. TOP,32. the true art of a warrior is to balance terror and wonder. TOP,92..because the warrior's way is harmony-the harmony between actions and decisions, at first, and then the harmony between tonal and nagual. TOP,153.In order to be a hunter, one must be in perfect balance with everything else, otherwise hunting would be a meaningless chore. JTI,53.. the two opposing forces that move within us, male and female, positive and negative, light and dark, have to be kept in balance so that an opening is created in the energy that surrounds us: an opening through which our awareness can slip. It is through this opening in the energy encompassing us that the spirit manifests itself. Balance is what we are after.. but balance doesn't only mean an equal portion of each force. It also means that as the portions are made equal, the new, balanced combination gains momentum and begins to move by itself. TSC,87.

TO BE PERFECT UNDER PERFECT CIRCUMSTANCES WAS TO BE A PAPER WARRIOR.
To be perfect under perfect circumstances was to be a paper warrior. EG,307.



FOR WARRIORS, THE EXCITATION OF STAYING PUT IS EQUAL TO THE EXCITATION OF THE JOURNEY. BOTH ARE EQUAL, BECAUSE BOTH ENTAIL THE FULFILLING OF A SACRED TRUST.
For warriors, the excitation of staying put is equal to the excitation of the journey. both are equal, because both entail the fulfilling of a sacred trust. EG,307.

WARRIOR'S INNER STATE SHOULD REFLECT OUTER STATE

KUNG FU: AS A REFLECTION OF YOUR INNER SELF
Clara began to explain that the term kung fu is derived from the juxtaposition of two Chinese characters, one meaning "work done over a period of time", the other signifying "man". When these two characters are combined, the term refers to man's endeavor to perfect himself through constant effort. She contended that whether we practice formal exercises, arrange rocks or rake leaves, we always express our inner state through our actions. Therefore to perfect our acts is to perfect ourselves.. This is the true meaning of kung fu. TSC,120. what you have been learning here with me might be referred to in China as internal kung fu, or nei kung... Internal kung fu uses controlled breathing and the circulation of energy to strengthen the body and augment one's health; whereas external martial arts, like the karate forms you learned from your Japanese teachers and some of the forms I showed you, focus on building muscles and quick energy responses in which energy is released and is directed away from us.. Clara said internal kung fu was practiced by monks in China long before they developed the external or hard styles of fighting that are populary known as kung fu today. TSC,121.

HOW YOU DO THINGS: A REFLECTION OF YOUR INNER SELF.
It is the grace with which you manipulate things that matter... Your inner state is reflected in the way you move, talk, eat or place rocks. TSC,123. When aiming for the perfect form, pretty good isn't good enough.. you ought to know by now that the outward form of anything we do is really an expression of our inner state. TSC,119. ..you do everything just to get by. TSC,120.

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU DO, AS LONG AS YOU GATHER ENERGY WITH YOUR ACTIONS AND TRANSFORM IT INTO POWER.
It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you gather energy with your actions and transform it into power. TSC,123. As an artist you should know that the rocks have to be put where they are in balance.. not where it is easiest for you to drop them. Of course, if you were imbued with power, you could drop them any which way and the result would be beauty itself. To understand this is the real purpose of the exercise of placing rocks. TSC,123.

IT'S HOW WE DO THINGS THAT MATTER, NOT HOW FAST OR HOW MUCH WE GET DONE.
placing rocks is just like practicing kung fu... It's how we do things that matter, not how fast or how much we get done. TSC,120. I asked you to carry the rocks from the stream so that walking up the hilly trail with the added weight would develop your internal strength. We are not just interested in building muscles, but rather in cultivating internal energy. TSC,120,121

WELL BEING OF A WARRIOR

THE SECRET IS NOT IN WHAT YOU DO TO YOURSELF BUT RATHER IN WHAT YOU DON'T DO.
I don't do anything. My body feels fine, that's all. I treat myself very well, therefore, I have no reason to feel tired or ill at ease. The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do. JTI,160.

WELL-BEING WAS AN ACHIEVEMENT ONE HAD TO DELIBERATELY SEEK
well-being was a condition one had to groom, a condition one had to become acquainted with in order to seek it. .. well-being was an achievement one had to deliberately seek. in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in a most intense fashion, and that it was absurd I had never realized I could work just the same in making myself complete and strong. JTI,183,184.

THE TRICK IS WHAT ONE EMPHASIZES. WE EITHER MAKE OURSELVES MISERABLE OR WE MAKE OURSELVES STRONG. THE AMOUNT OF WORK IS THE SAME.
The trick is what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. (bed of strings description JTI,183,184) JTI,183,184.

WHEN WE ARE AGITATED

PROP YOUR LOWER BACK AGAINST A PIECE OF FURNITURE. OR BEND YOUR ARMS BACKWARD, PRESSING YOUR HANDS AGAINST THE TOP OF YOUR KIDNEYS.
when you are agitated as you are now, prop your lower back against a piece of furniture. Or bend your arms backward, pressing your hands against the top of your kidneys. TSC,181.

TO RELAX

IF I WANTED TO REGAIN MY STRENGTH I HAD TO LIE WITH MY HEAD TOWARDS THE EAST.
I had to climb to the flat top of a small hill...and lie down on my stomach with my head towards the east. JTI,17...he said if I wanted to regain my strength I had to lie with my head towards the east. JTI,143.

CALM YOUR MIND TO CALM YOUR BODY
Calm the mind..and the body too will become tranquil; otherwise you're going to burst. TSC,74. The more relaxed the mind and body are, the more air a person can take into each of the three body divisions. TSC,71.

BREATHING

WE SHOULD BREATH LIKE AN INFANT
This is how infants breathe... remember the sensation of your stomach popping out, so you can reproduce it regardless of whether you are walking, exercising or lying around doing nothing. You probably won't believe this, but we are so civilized that we have to relearn how to breathe properly.. now let the breath rise to fill your chest cavity.. but don't let it flood your head. ..when I'm say air, I'm really talking about energy derived from the breath, which enters the abdomen, the chest and then the head.... she became serious again and continued to explain that our emotional well-being is directly linked to the rhythmic flow of our breathing. The breathing of a person who is upset... is rapid and shallow and is localized in the chest or head. The breathing of a relaxed person sinks to the abdomen. TSC,70. it's harder for big people to breath from the abdomen because their center of gravity is just a bit higher. it's therefore even more important that we remain calm and unperturbed... TSC,71

STRETCHING

YOU MUST STRETCH YOUR BODY MANY TIMES DURING THE DAY.
THE MORE TIMES THE BETTER, BUT ONLY AFTER A LONG PERIOD OF WORK OR A LONG PERIOD OF REST.
You must stretch your body many times during the day. The more times the better, but only after a long period of work or a long period of rest. JTI,179.

EXERCISE

A WARRIOR WALKS MILES AND MILES EVERYDAY
A warrior also walks miles and miles every day. SRP,201.
I noticed then that he did not like to talk while he walked. JTI,44.

THINGS IN A WARRIOR'S LIFE

APOLOGIZING

APOLOGIES ARE NONSENSE
Apologies are nonsense. TOP,273.

STAYING STILL

WARRIOR CAN REMAIN IMMOBILE FOR HOURS
Apparently it was easy for him to remain in complete immobility for hours. JTI,95.

STAYING WARM

FIGHTING COLD/WARMTH HEATING THE BODY
he just showed you how to fight the cold with a specific posture: squatting with the arms wrapped around the chest. TSC,93. He told me it was not the ministrations but his inner silence that kept me warm, and the branches or stones (to hold or put in shirt) were merely devices to trap my attention and maintain it in focus. POS,21

EATING

A WARRIOR EATS QUIETLY, SLOWLY.. FOUR MOUTHFULS
a warrior eats quietly, and slowly, and very little at a time....a warrior eats four mouthfuls of food at one time. A while later he eats another four mouthfuls and so on. SRP,201. I tried to talk to him, but he said that conversing while eating was bad for the digestion. i told him that Clara and I always chatted endlessly during our meals. TSC,201.

DRINKING ALCOHOL

NEVER DRANK
he said that he never drank, not even beer. JTI,7.

READING

READ FOR INFORMATION OR FOR PLEASURE
I read for information. (Clara) But some of the others do read for pleasure. TSC,174.

WEARING HATS

ALL WORE HATS TO PROTECT THEIR FACES FROM THE SUNLIGHT
All of them wore hats and used the brims to protect their faces from the sunlight when they were not bathing their eyes in it. SRP,251

POVERTY

POVERTY WAS THE STATE OF BEING WHEN YOUR CONCRETE NEEDS OVER POWER YOU.
poverty was the state of being when your concrete needs over power you. POS,194.

SECRETS

ALL SECRETS GONE
My desire for freedom has burned every secret in me. (Clara) TSC,166.

MIRRORS

NO MIRRORS IN THEIR HOUSE
There were no mirrors in their house. SRP,161.

CLUMSINESS

A COLLISION WITH SOMEONE NO BLUNDER A SORCERER SHOULD EVER MAKE
A collision with someone was the type of blunder which no sorcerer should ever make. POS, 30

BEWITCHING

YOU DON'T BEWITCH TO MAKE WARRIORS
you don't bewitch for courage. Courage is something personal. Bewitching is for rendering people harmless or sick or dumb. You don't bewitch to make warriors. To be a warrior you have to be crystal clear... SR,76.

SHAME

SHAME AND SELF-IMPORTANCE MAKE TERRIBLE COMPANIONS
Shame and self-importance make terrible companions. TSC,164.

FAILURE

DOESN'T MATTER IF WE FAIL
one can always fail...a warrior is in the hands of power and his only freedom is to choose an impeccable life. there is no way to fake triumph or defeat. Your reason may want you to fail altogether in order to obliterate the totality of yourself. TOP,59.

DEFEAT
..anyone who joins the petty tyrant is defeated. To act in anger, without control and discipline, to have no forbearance, is to be defeated. FFW,46. Once one of these enemies (the four enemies of man) overpowers a man there is nothing he can do. it is a final defeat.... a man is defeated only when he no longer tries, and abandons himself. TDJ,86 You failed miserably trying to accomplish a manuever we call the abstract flight or the sorcerer's crossing.. the attempt depleted your energy reserves. TSC,222. But because of my craziness, i didn't cross gently and harmoniously. In other words, the awareness my double acquired had nothing to do with the daily awareness of my body. This resulted in a sensation that i was flying and couldn't stop. All my reserve energy drained out of me without any restraint and my double went berserk. TSC,224. he said that in that sorcerer's intent there wasn't room for defeat, for sorcerers have only one path open to them: to succeed in whatever they do. TSC,212.

QUITTING
You quit because no one paid any attention to you after your misadventure, and you didn't get the recognition you thought you deserve. .. everytime I had committed one of my wild, impulsive acts..it had been to boost my self-image or to compete with someone in order to prove that I was better. TSC,98.

INTENSITY OF A WARRIOR'S LIFE

SORCERERS COUNTED THEIR LIVES IN HOURS, AND THAT IN ONE HOUR IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR A SORCERER TO LIVE THE EQUIVALENT IN INTENSITY OF A NORMAL LIFE.
sorcerers counted their lives in hours, and that in one hour it was possible for a sorcerer to live the equivalent in intensity of a normal life. POS,245..

INTENSITY (EXTRA FLOW OF ENERGY) IS AN AUTOMATIC RESULT OF THE MOVEMENT OF THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT
...intensity is an automatic result of the movement of the AP. POS,246 the extra flow of energy when the AP is moved. POS,246

ABANDONMENT

THE SPIRIT ONLY LISTENED WHEN THE SPEAKER SPEAKS IN GESTURES. AND GESTURES DO NOT MEAN SIGNS OR BODY MOVEMENTS, BUT ACTS OF TRUE ABANDON, ACTS OF LARGESSE, OF HUMOR
the spirit only listened when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of true abandon, acts of largesse, of humor. As a gesture for the spirit, sorcerers bring out the best of themselves and silently offer it to the abstract. POS,244.....

PASSION

IN ORDER TO BE A SORCERER A MAN MUST BE PASSIONATE.
In order to be a sorcerer a man must be passionate. A passionate man has earthly belongings and things dear to him- if nothing else, just the path where he walks. JTI,266.

DOING STUFF

FIRST, YOU MUST VISUALIZE YOUR EXPERIENCES AS IF YOU WERE RELIVING THEM, AND THEN SEE THE TEXT IN YOUR DREAMING.
Doing something.. first, you must visualize your experiences as if you were reliving them, and then see the text in your dreaming. POS, 12

TO TRY WITHOUT HOPING TO SUCCEED
The second precept of the rule is that we must try to unravel these mysteries, but without ever hoping to accomplish this. EG,279.

IF ONE IS TO SUCCEED IN ANYTHING, THE SUCESS MUST COME GENTLY, WITH A GREAT DEAL OF EFFORT BUT WITH NO STRESS OR OBSESSION.
if one is to succeed in anything, the sucess must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession. TOP,18.

PUSH YOURSELF PAST YOUR LIMITS
You should push yourself beyond your limits, all the time. TOP,14.

BEING CAUTIOUS

BEING CAUTIOUS/CONTROLLING OUR INTERNAL ENERGY FOR EXTRAORDINARY ACTIONS
Unfortunately, prudence comes to us only after we've gotten blasted... TSC,128... she added that cautiousness without cowardice is hinged on our ability to control our internal energy and to divert it into the reserve channels, so that it is available to us when we need it for extraordinary actions... with enough internal energy, anything can be accomplished. ... but we need to store and refine it. TSC,128

TAKING THINGS FOR GRANTED

DON'T TAKE SORCERER'S WORLD FOR GRANTED
In the sorcerer's world anything is possible... but one thing is for certain: it is not a world to be taken for granted. In it, we must voice our thanks now, because there is no tomorrow. TSC,179.

THINGS TO AVOID WHILE ON THE PATH OF A WARRIOR...

STRESS

STRESS HAPPENS ANY TIME WE DO ANYTHING TO EXCESS.
The human body has an extra energy system that comes into play when we are under stress.. and stress happens any time we do anything to excess. Like being overly concerned with yourself and your performace when, as you are now.TSC,125. That's why one of the fundamental precepts of the art of freedom is to avoid excesses. TSC,125.

INDULGING

ALL OF US HAVE LEARNED TO PERFECTION HOW TO MAKE OUR TONAL WEAK. I HAVE CALLED THAT INDULGING.
to indulge in your little quirks is not only stupid and wasteful but also injurious. A warrior that drains himself cannot live. The body is not an indestructable affair. You might have gotten gravely ill. TOP,78. There is nothing wrong with feeling of being helpless... there is nothing wrong with complaining, but to indulge in protesting and complaining is another matter. TOP,84.
Denying yourself is an indulgence... the indulgence of denying is by far the worst; it forces us to believe we are doing great things when in effect we are only fixed within ourselves. SR,146.
all of us have learned to perfection how to make our tonal weak. I have called that indulging. TOP,135.

HERMIT

TO BE A HERMIT IS AN INDULGENCE AND I NEVER MEANT THAT. A HERMIT IS NOT DETACHED, FOR HE WILLFULLY ABANDONS HIMSELF TO BEING A HERMIT.
To be a hermit is an indulgence and I never meant that. A hermit is not detached, for he willfully abandons himself to being a hermit. SR,151

INJURING THE SPIRIT

THE SPIRIT CAN BE INJURED BY INDULGING/SOMEONE NAGGING YOU
I think the spirit of man is something that can be injured very easily....I believe your parents did injure you by making you indulgent and soft and given to dwelling.SR,215. What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do. JTI,xii.

FIGHTS
I'm not interested in your capricious fight against your family. Even though you've been at odds with them all your life, your fight has no purpose or direction. It's time to give your natural strength and compulsive drive a worthy cause. TSC,182.

BECOMING TRAPPED
but in order to be trapped a man has to be willing. There's your trouble. You're willing to abandon yourself. SR,179.

GETTING LOST ON THE PATH/PULL OF THE DAILY WORLD

VERY EASY TO GET LOST ON THE PATH
it is very easy in the path of knowledge to get lost in intracacies and morbidity. He said seers are up against great enemies that can destroy their purpose, muddle their aims, and make them weak; enemies created by the warrior's path itself together with the sense of indolence, lazinenss and self-importance that are integral parts of the daily world. FFW,186. Ex. of old man.. significance of his life.. stupidly the same. Before I met DJ... nothing had ever mattered to me. SRP,168.
The pull of the daily world is so strong and sustained that in spite of their most assiduous training, all practitioners find themselves again and again in the midst of the most abject terror, stupidity and indulging, as if they had learned nothing. My teachers warned me that I was no exception. And that only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged. TSC,xiii.

DEALING WITH PEOPLE

DESCRIPTIONS OF WAYS OF SAYING GOODBYE

She put her clasped just below her navel. She turned and faced the valley and did the same movement with her hands. SRP,102.
More description. SRP,103.
Their are many ways of saying farewell... the best way is perhaps by holding a particular memory of joyfulness. TOP,270.
a warrior said farewell by thanking all those who had ahd a gesture of kindness or concern for him, and that I had to voice my gratitude not only to them but also to those who had taken care of me and helped me on my way. TOP,279.

PROMISES/OATHS

MAKING OATHS OR PROMISES CAN BIND US
She said that there are moments in everyone's life, especially in early childhood, when we wanted something so badly that we automatically fixed our total intent on it, which, once fixed, remains in place until we fulfill our desire. She elaborated by saying that vows, oaths, and promises bounds our intent, so that from then on, our actions, feelings and thoughts are consistently directed toward fulfilling or maintaining those commitments regardless of whether or not we remember having made them.. TSC,117
sometimes we are bound by preposterous childish devotion or pledges of undying, eternal love. TSC,117.
And if it is a matter of fulfilling your promise then you must be aware that you are fulfilling it. Then a time will come when you waiting will be over and you will no longer have to honor your promise. There is nothing you can do for that little boy's life. SR,142

CARING

THOSE WHO CARE, CARE FOR THEMSELVES
Those who care for others care for themselves and demand recognition where recognition is due. FFW,206.

MALICIOUS ACTS

MALICIOUS ACTS ARE PERFORMED BY PEOPLE FOR PERSONAL GAIN
Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain.. the average man acts only if there is the chance for profit. Warriors act not for profit but for the spirit. POS,91.

INTEREST IN PEOPLE

LIKING PEOPLE/BEING LIKED
You're too concerned with liking people or with being liked yourself. A man of knowledge likes, that's all. he likes whatever or whoever he wants, but he uses his controlled folly to be unconcerned about it. the opposite of what you are doing now. to like people or to be liked by people is not all one can do as a man. SR,89.....by the time a warrior is capable of conquering seeing and dreaming and having the awareness of his luminosity, there is no such interest left in him. TOP,60.

CONFRONTATIONS

CONFRONTATION:THE WORST THING ONE CAN DO IS TO CONFRONT HUMAN BEINGS BLUNTLY
..he would know that the worst thing one can do is to confront human beings bluntly. JTI,x

IF ONE WANTS TO STOP OUR FELLOW MEN ONE MUST ALWAYS BE OUTSIDE THE CIRCLE THAT PRESSES THEM. THAT WAY ONE CAN ALWAYS DIRECT THE PRESSURE.
if one wants to stop our fellow men one must always be outside the circle that presses them. That way one can always direct the pressure. JTI,xi.

POSSIBLE DANGER TO OTHER PEOPLE FROM WARRIORS ON THE PATH

DANGERS TO OTHERS FROM PEOPLE ON THE PATH OF KNOWLEDGE
but knowledge is power and once a man embarks on the road of knowledge he's no longer liable for what may happen to those who come in contact with him. SR,34.
CONNECTING WITH OTHERS

CONNECTION WITH OTHERS
She seemed to be internally connected to me to such a degree that there was no reason for us to say anything. We sustained the feeling of communality with each other for a moment longer and then it overwhelmed us both. EG,144.

ENERGY THAT AFFECTS SOMEONE ELSE

DESCRIPTION
the energy of my body is pressing on you. That extra pressure is what's making your heart beat faster. TSC,181.

CATEGORIES OF TYPES OF PEOPLE

PEOPLE FALL INTO THREE CATEGORIES
..Stalkers believe that in matters of personality, the entire human race falls into three categories.. (see POS,249, 250).