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 th….

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 imp….

Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking ….

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf an….

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting..

For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himselfand o….

Things are only real after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot possibly be real to you, be….

Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one ….

Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it.

Don Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most intense fashion, and that it was absurd….

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for.

... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's t….

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity..

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 fe….

The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching….

... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he ac….

You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life..

A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging ….

Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditi….

The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain..

... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. ….