Common warriors ride physical mounts,
while the mystical begin with words,
only to ultimately abandon them for foot travel.

There was once a building in which the water lines were tied into the heating ducts.

This thought so came to a man:
"Is it not obviously so that it is easier to act the heroic role when alone, rather than when in the company of others?" And immediately following this came the realization: "And cannot I use this fact, applicable to the thinking that commonly occupies my mind?"

One man says he's sure he'll have taken the first step to becoming more conscious if he can get down the difference between daydreaming and thinking.

Man is not mentally slain by death, nor even ignorance,
but rather by inertia.

Muscles know to move -- man must make the mind.

The simple find heroic action in physical deeds,
the sophisticated find it in the striving to achieve,
and the more alert find it in the privacy of their own mental undertakings.

The difference between striving and achieving is the same
as between achieving and striving.
As long as they both count equally, neither counts for anything.

The ordinary look to soothsayers, priests, and astrologers
to help ease the fatalism they sense controlling their lives.
The more conscious do not waste energy in search of gas masks,
believing that the atmosphere is more toxic in some areas than in others.
A struggle with foes unknown makes them seem invincible --
which is a reflection of the futility of seeking knowledge where none exists.