Reassuring Ambiguity

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“Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls. Warriors jump over walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don’t demolish them.”  -Don Juan Matus

I am a human being; I fuck up every day  -Comic Book Shaman's credo

“The course of a warrior’s destiny is unalterable. The challenge is how far he can go; and how impeccable he can be within those rigid bounds. -Don Juan Matus

“In the time of the sorcerers who were the founders of my lineage, women were, by rule, the naguals.  Their natural pragmatism; the product of their femaleness; led my lineage into pits of practicalities from which they could barely emerge. Then the males took over, and led my lineage into pits of imbecility from which we are barely emerging now.”   “To be a sorcerer doesn’t mean to practice witchcraft, or to work to affect people, or to be possessed by demons. To be a sorcerer means to reach a level of awareness that makes inconceivable things available.”   -Don Juan Matus

“The first principle of stalking is that warriors choose their battleground. A warrior never goes into battle without knowing what the surroundings are.” -Don Juan Matus

“To discard everything that is unnecessary is the second principle if stalking. A warrior doesn’t complicate things. He aims at being simple. He applies all the concentration he has to decide whether or not to enter into battle; for any battle is the battle of his life.”   -Don Juan Matus

“This is the third principle of the art of stalking: A warrior must be willing and ready to make his last stand here and now. But not in a helter-skelter way.’   -Don Juan Matus

“A warrior relaxes and abandons himself, he fears nothing. Only then  will the powers that guide human beings open the road for a warrior and aid him. Only then. That is the fourth principle of stalking. ”  -Don Juan Matus

“When faced with odds that cannot be dealt with; warriors retreat for a moment. They let their minds meander. They occupy their time with something else. Anything would do. That is the fifth principle of the art of stalking.”   -Don Juan Matus

“Warriors compress time; this is the sixth principle of stalking. Even an instant counts. In a battle for your life a second is an eternity, an eternity that may decide the outcome. Warriors aim at succeeding, therefore they compress time. Warriors don’t waste an instant.”  -Don Juan Matus

If a thing is true; its opposite is also true. -the law of the excluded middle

"she's stumbled on the sides of 12 misty mountains..."

“In order to apply the seventh principle of the art of stalking one has to apply the other six: a stalker never pushes himself to the front. He is always looking on from behind the scenes.”  -Don Juan Matus

“With a lifetime artists grow, move on and sometimes come home.  Love your friends and remember they are always you and all things keep coming back around.”   -Comic Book Shaman

Applying these principles brings about three results. The first is that stalkers learn never to take themselves seriously; they learn to laugh at themselves. If they are not afraid of being a fool, they can fool anyone. The second is that stalkers learn to have endless patience. Stalkers are never in a hurry; they never fret. And the third is that stalkers learn to have an endless capacity to improvise.    -Don Juan Matus



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