WARRIOR QUOTES THE WARRIOR SAYINGS OF DON JUAN The following quote collection has been culled from the Casteneda books and represents a distillation of Don Juan's philosophy of the warrior. Regardless of what you may think of the literal veracity of these books(they have been pretty successfully debunked as truthful encounters), they were for many in our culture, including me, the first encounter with the philosophy of the warrior. Don Juan's teachings about the Warrior stance have the perfection of a Samurai sword or arrows shot by a master Zen archer. Their concise, penetrating power is unequaled, and they pierce ego illusions like diamond bullets. Taken together they amount to a Toltec Warrior Manifesto. Someone once defined stories as "equipment for living." Don Juan's warrior teachings are also equipment for living, something never to leave behind, like a blade of impervious metal, ...

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Eclectic Quotes I have been collecting quotations for a long time. Aphoristic quotations are sometimes the most efficient and entertaining expression of universal truths. For this reason one can often find quotes from very divergent sources and times that say almost the same thing in almost the same words. Sometimes they may have influenced each other, but often they have been independently influenced by universal truth. Everyone's' ego tends to create narrow tunnel views of things, especially things that frustrate us and arouse fear and desire. The right quotations at the right time can be like diamond bullets that blast holes in those tunnels and make us aware of much larger vistas. My barn having burned to the ground, I can see the moon. ...

Taoist Quotes The following quotes come from Back to Beginnings, Reflections on the Tao by Huanchu Daoren, translated by Thomas Cleary. They were written around 1600 by a retired Chinese Scholar, Hong Yingming, whose Taoist name, Huanchu Daoren, means "A Wayfarer Back to Beginnings." In it can be seen a form of lay Taoism dating many centuries further back into history, in which the historical and sociological insights of pristine Confucianism are combined with the advanced educational and psychological know ledges and methodologies of Buddhism and Taoism. Nothing is really known of Huanchu Daoren, except that he wrote these meditations on the Tao which were originally entitled, "Vegetable Root Talks." He identifies himself as a Confucian, which means that he is a layman; his Taoist epithet, "Back to Beginnings," says in calendrical symbolism that he has passed the age of sixty, has retired from public affairs, and has started a new cycle of life. ...

The Taoist Path Introduction. © Jonathan Zap 2004 Someone once described stories as "equipment for living." Quality fiction does fit that definition and, of course, so does the right non fiction. The modern Taoist quotes presented here are almost the illustration of this definition. They are like a set of tools, deceptively simple in appearance, but made of an adamantine metal that grows stronger and sharper with long use. Someone else said, "Don't read a book unless it is like a ball of light glowing in your hands." When you find the right book, at the right time, it can be a sphere of light in your hands. ...

Thoughts on Jung © 2008, Jonathan Zap An Encounter with Jung As a child my psyche was magnetized by emergent archetypal visions from the collective psyche that would appear in my own imagination, and also in many artifacts of popular culture such as science-fiction novels and films. By the time I was nineteen, and a senior in college, I set out to understand these numinous visions and was quickly led to a very personal encounter with Jung. A few years ago I described that encounter as follows: My first encounter with Jung was intense and had the uncanny stamp of what Jung called ‘synchronicity’ all over it. I was nineteen years old and attempting to investigate certain anomalies. I had had experiences of a parapsychological nature, and found myself fascinated by ...

My friend Rob Brezsny asked me to pick out some quotations from my writings that he could feature in his newsletter.  I did, but most of the ones he came up with were ones he found himself.  Here’s an excerpt from his newsletter, followed by the quotes that I came up with.  I’ve always had a weakness for quotations.  Here’s one of my favorites: “I hate quotations.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter JANUARY 9, 2008 FreeWillAstrology.com "You have everything you need in the present situation to work with impeccability. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't work toward manifesting additional resources and opportunities. It does mean that the present situation supplies you with everything ...