«Проблема для всех нас заключается в том, чтобы взять от этого мира только то, что действительно необходимо, — и ничего более. Знать, что же является необходимым — это искусность магов, но взять тольк...
Everything is filled to the brim, he repeated, and everything is equal. I’m not like your friend who just grew old. When I tell you that nothing matters I don’t mean it the way he does. For him, his s...
Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.
A fine power is always heralded by great pain.
Человек знания живет действием, а не мыслью о действии. Он выбирает путь сердца и следует по этому пути. Когда он смотрит, он радуется и смеется; когда он видит, он знает. Он знает, что жизнь его зако...
I asked him if each of the two spots had a special name. He said that the good one was called the sitio andthe bad one the enemy; he said these two places were the key to a man's wellbeing, especially...
He said that I was a man. And like any man I deserved everything that was a man’s lot—joy, pain, sadness and struggle—and that the nature of one’s acts was unimportant as long as one acted as a warrio...
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world,...
Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your deat...
Подумай вот о чем, - продолжал он. - мир не отдается нам прямо. Между ним и нами находится описание мира. Поэтому правильно говоря, мы всегда на один шаг позади, и наше восприятие мира всегда только в...
Человек знания живет действием, а не мыслью о действии.
Ключом ко всем этим делам неуязвимости является чувство того, имеешь ты время или ты не имеешь времени. Как правило большого пальца, когда ты чувствуешь и действуешь подобно бессмертному существу, в р...
We know that 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 conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety...
We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.
Our will operates in spite of our indulgence. For example, your will is already opening your gap, little by little. What gap are you talking about? There is a gap in us; like the soft spot on the head...
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...
Nestor said to me. A row of Hussars on horseback will come to take me. What will it be for you? I remembered don Juan telling me once that death might be behind anything imaginable, even behind a dot...
My benefactor told me that my father and mother had lived and died just to have me, and that their own parents had done the same for them. He said that warriors were different in that they shift their...
La ricerca della libertà è l'unica forza stimolante che conosca. Libertà di volare in quell'infinito là in alto; libertà di dissolversi; libertà di distaccarsi da tutto; di essere come la fiamma di un...
By looking at you he meant he welcomes you. He showed you that you need a spirit catcher and a pouch, but not from this area; his bag was from another part of the country. You have three stumbling blo...