You think about yourself too much and that gives you a strange
fatigue that makes you shut off the world around you and cling to
your arguments.
A light and amenable disposition is needed in order to withstand the
impact and the strangeness of the knowledge I am teaching you.
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy, and vain. To be a man of
knowledge one needs to be light and fluid.
One has to reduce to a minimum all that is unnecessary in one's
life.
Once you decide something put all your petty fears away. Your
decision should vanquish them. I will tell you time and time again,
the most effective way to live is as a warrior. Worry and think
before you make any decision, but once you make it, be on your way
free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other
decisions still awaiting you. That's the warrior's way.
A warrior thinks of his death when things become unclear. The idea of
death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.
To be a warrior you have to be crystal clear.
http://www.prismagems.com/castaneda/donjuan2.html
(A Separate Reality - Carlos Castaneda)
