Book: Journey to Ixtlan

How can you feel like an important person when you know that death is steadily on your trail?

To stop a person, you need to press hard on him. However, at the same time, one himself must remain out of visible connection with the factors and circumstances directly related to this pressure. Only then can the pressure be controlled.

You can do better. You make only one mistake - you think that you have a lot of time at your disposal.

All the best you do in your life will be done at the end of the day. You obviously don't like the youthful glow of the early light. Traveling in the morning does not appeal to you. But the dying sun - old and yellow and ripe - is yours. You don't like heat, you like shine. And so your last dance will be performed on this peak at the end of the day. And in this dance there will be your story about the struggle, about the battles in which you won and those that you lost, about those joys and the confusion that you experienced when faced with personal strength. Your dance will tell of the secrets and wonders that you have accumulated, and your death will sit here and look at you. Just like today, the dying sun will shine on you, but not burn you. A soft, pleasant wind will blow, and the top of the hill will tremble. And when your dance comes to an end, you will look at the sun, look for the last time, because you will never see it again - neither in reality nor in a dream. And then death will point south. Into the immensity.

The more stubborn you are, the better you will be when you can finally change yourself.

It is foolish to believe that the world is exactly the way you think it is.

When you are angry, you always feel that you are right.

You must erase everything around you until nothing is taken for granted, until nothing is certain or real. Now your problem is that you are too real. Your aspirations are too real, your moods are too real. Don't take things so obvious. You have to start erasing yourself.

A person can receive consent from everything that surrounds him.

If anything cripples our spirit, then it is just constant nit-picking, slaps in the face and instructions on what needs to be done and what not.

What you're doing at the moment may be your last act on earth. In the world there is no force that could guarantee you that you will live at least another minute.

Every time you feel obligated to explain your actions like you're the only one on earth who lives properly.

I insisted that to feel anxious, or to be with the world in conflict - a normal human condition.
- So change it! - he said dryly. - It is a challenge, and if you do not accept it, then you're practically dead.

- If you decided something, you need to go to the end, - he said, - but you need to take responsibility for what you do. What man makes, does not matter, but he must know why he does it, and to act without hesitation or regret.