"Impeccability is nothing else but the proper use of our energy; impeccability is to do your best in whatever you’re engaged in. For a warrior, there is time only for his impeccability; everything else drains his power; impeccability replenishes it.
The key to all matters of impeccability is the sense of having or not having time. As a rule of thumb, when you feel and act like an immortal being that has all the time in the world, you are not impeccable; at those times, you should turn around, and then you will realize that your feeling of having time is an idiocy. There are no survivors on this earth!"
Don Juan Matus
"Controlled folly is the only way warriors have of dealing with themselves and with everybody and everything in the world of daily affairs. Controlled folly is a sophisticated, artistic way of being separated from everything while remaining an integral part of everything. Nothing being more important than anything else, a warrior chooses any act, and acts it out as if it matters to him, yet he knows that it doesn’t; so when he fulfills his acts he retreats in peace, and whether his acts were good or bad, or worked or didn’t, is in no way part of his concern. All we can do is practice controlled folly and laugh at ourselves."
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Don Juan Matus
"A man of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it; and then he looks and rejoices and laughs. He knows that his life will be over altogether too soon; he knows that he, as well as everybody else, is not going anywhere; he knows that nothing is more important than anything else. In other words, a man of knowledge has no honor, no dignity, no name, no country, but only life to be lived, and under these circumstances his only tie to his fellow men is his controlled folly."
Don Juan Matus
"The world we think we see is only a view, a description of the world...All of us throughout our lives develop one direction to look. Through the years that direction becomes overused, and weak and unpleasant, and since we are bound to that particular direction we become weak and unpleasant ourselves…The world is incomprehensible. We won’t ever understand it; we won’t ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat it as it is, a sheer mystery."
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Don Juan Matus
