- E.) A WARRIOR'S
LIFE
-
8. ACTING AS A
WARRIOR
-
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
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- 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.
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- CONFRONTATIONS
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- 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
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- 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.
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- POSSIBLE
DANGER TO OTHER PEOPLE FROM WARRIORS ON THE PATH
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- 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
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- 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.
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- ENERGY
THAT AFFECTS SOMEONE ELSE
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- DESCRIPTION
- the energy of my body is pressing on you. That
extra pressure is what's making your heart beat faster.
TSC,181.
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- CATEGORIES
OF TYPES OF PEOPLE
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- PEOPLE FALL INTO THREE CATEGORIES
- ..Stalkers believe that in matters of
personality, the entire human race falls into three categories..
(see POS,249, 250).
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