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For A Human Being, Sadness Is As Powerful As Terror. Sadness Makes A Warrior Shed Tears Of Blood.

The World Is Incomprehensible. We Won't Ever Understand It; We Won't Ever Unravel Its Secrets. Thus We Must Treat The World As It Is: A Sheer Mystery.

There Are Lots Of Things A Warrior Can Do At A Certain Time Which He Couldn't Do Years Before. Those Things Themselves Did Not Change; What Changed Was His Idea Of Himself.

A Warrior Must Cultivate The Feeling That He Has Everything Needed For The Extravagant Journey That Is His Life. What Counts For A Warrior Is Being Alive. Life In Itself Is Sufficient, Self-explanatory And Complete. Therefore, One May Say Without Being Presumptuous That The Experience Of Experiences Is Being Alive.

The Things Shamans Deal With Are Extremely Practical. They Break Down Parameters Of Normal Historical Reality. Magical Passes Are Just One Aspect Of That.