The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

“If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.”

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy, and vain.

“It doesn’t matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.”

“A warrior doesn’t know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one’s acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.”

“To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.”