What is your favorite DJM quote?

[Blue totem]

Hello everyone.
I'm doing a painting of Don Juan Matus as a crow. I need to incorporate a quote from DJM in it.
Please write your favorite quotes of DJ (1 to 3 phrases only), and I will pick one to incorpotare in my art.
When it is done soon, I will post it on the forum.
Thanks.

[SelfHealedMadman]

“I'm a crow. Am I a man or a bird? I'm a man who knows how to become a bird.”



or



"I am a crow. I am teaching you how to become a crow. When you learn that, you will stay awake, and you will move freely; otherwise you will always be glued to the ground, wherever you fall."

[The Hidalgo]

All paths are the same. They lead nowhere. A path without a heart is never
enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy: It does not make a warrior work
at liking it. As long as a man follows a path with heart, he is one with it. 
The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think
before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes on his way free from
worries or thoughts knowing there will be a million other decisions still
awaiting him. That's the warriors' way.
A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about
what he will think when he has finished acting.
Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man
succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates independent
of any warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is
what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
A man, any man, deserves everything that is a man's lot: joy, pain, sadness, and
struggle.
To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our
temporariness, and our manhood.
Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.




****... I like them all. Let us know when it's ready, T.

[Blue totem]

First of all, *** off SHM.
Ok people, more quotes....
Maybe some quotes related to seeing.... ( I like seeing).

[SelfHealedMadman]

Blue totem wrote:
First of all, *** off SHM.
.....but HOW should I *** off, Blue Totem?

[Blue totem]

Two quotes from DJM that have potential.
-What we need to do to allow magic to get hold of us is to
banish doubts from our minds. Once doubts are banished anything is
possible.
-Everything that warriors do is done as a consequence of a
movement of their assemblage points, and such movements are ruled by
the amount of energy warriors have at their command.

[Lunoor]

Here's some good ones:



The characteristic of miserable seers is that they are willing to forget the wonder of the world. They become overwhelmed by the fact that they see and believe that it's their genius that counts.



Seeing is a peculiar feeling of knowing, of knowing something without a shadow of doubt.



There is no completeness without sadness and longing, for

without them there is no sobriety, no kindness. Wisdom without

kindness and knowledge without sobriety are useless.



When nothing is for sure we remain

alert, perennially on our toes. It is more

exciting not to know which bush the rabbit

is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.



For an average man, the world is

weird because if he's not bored with it,

he's at odds with it. For a warrior, the

world is weird because it is stupendous,

awesome, mysterious, unfathomable. A

warrior must assume responsibility for

being here, in this marvelous world, in

this marvelous time.





Every living thing has been granted

the power, if it so desires, to seek an

opening to freedom and go through it.





Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I.





We talk to ourselves incessantly

about our world. In fact we maintain our

world with our internal talk. And whenever

we finish talking to ourselves about

ourselves and our world, the world is

always as it should be. We renew it, we

rekindle it with life, we uphold it with our

internal talk. Not only that, but we also

choose our paths as we talk to ourselves.

Thus we repeat the same choices over

and over until the day we die, because we

keep on repeating the same internal talk

over and over until the day we die. A warrior

is aware of this and strives to stop

his internal talk.



Seeing must be direct, for a warrior can't use his time

to unravel what he himself is seeing . Seeing is seeing because it cuts through

all that nonsense. In the beginning seeing is confusing and it's easy to get lost in it.

As the warrior gets tighter, however, his seeing becomes what it should be,

a direct knowing. A warrior asks a question, and through his seeing he gets an answer,

but the answer is simple.





Once inner silence is attained, everything

is possible. The way to stop talking

to ourselves is to use exactly the same

method used to teach us to talk to

ourselves; we were taught compulsively

and unwaveringly, and this is the

way we must stop it: compulsively and

unwaveringly.





I am already given to the power that rules my fate.

And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend.

I have no thoughts, so I will see.

I fear nothing, so I will remember myself.





Happy painting Totem!

[dreamgirl]

Say this over and over like a prayer: "The crux of sorcery is in the movement of the assemblage point"



or something to that effect, you know what I am talking about BT

[Nagual LoneWolf]

A Separate Reality, page 154, Carlos Castaneda wrote:

"Seeing is for impeccable men. Temper your spirit now, become a warrior, learn to see and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds for our vision."

[Bob May]

No one is doing anything to anyone...

[Guest]