Return of the Warriors Quotes

“Average man is arrogant, because he is ever impressed by reason and always bows his head to it. Reason makes us believe that our challenges in life are to be avoided at all costs. This is to be a coward who does not have the self-respect needed in order to honour the marvellous gift of life.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“Denial is the worst form of self-indulgence. A warrior sees his faults as being his passage to power.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“The warrior lives by challenge; therefore his life is a disciplined strategy.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“No man is born a warrior, nor is he born a reasoning being – we choose to become either one or the other. In order to become a warrior, one must be prepared to take one’s chances and fight for one’s freedom. There is no other way. One cannot become a warrior simply by wishing to do so. To become a warrior is the struggle of a lifetime.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“Impeccability is to act to the very best of your ability upon whatever knowledge happens to be available to you at any given moment.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“A warrior lives by challenge. The average man sees everything in his life as either a blessing or a curse; the warrior sees everything as a challenge.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“Warriors win battles, not by ignoring them, but through clarity.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“No man can survive the path of knowledge if he is not prepared to embrace death. Death is a warrior’s best advisor.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“When the warrior fails in any one particular pursuit of knowledge he is not defeated, because in walking the path of knowledge we fight many battles – some we win, some we lose. Success lies not in how many battles we have won, but in how well we have fought.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“Knowledge is ever greater and more powerful than man. To walk the path of knowledge is to fight for survival; therefore if you come to this path to learn, then you must be prepared to fight as if your life depends upon it.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“Man’s only justification for physical existence is to learn; this is his destiny which he cannot avoid under any circumstances.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“The only failure in life is the failure to fight.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“Self-confidence, as it is generally understood, implies arrogant presumption; humility implies being impeccable in one’s actions and feelings.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“A warrior never cedes his personal power to anything, not even to his death.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“A warrior accepts the challenges of life in true humility. No matter what his destiny may be, it can never be a cause for discontent, but a living challenge which it is his privilege to surmount.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“The warrior comes to knowledge fully prepared to die, and thus circumvents all possible pitfalls. Being prepared for the worst, the warrior cannot be surprised, because he is not expecting to live. Facing death, the warrior cuts out all unnecessary acts; therefore his fate unfolds smoothly.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“If you are not strong enough to fight you have no choice but to accept the life of a slave. The hunter is a free being who cannot submit himself to slavery. For him there is no choice but to fight. If he dies in that fight, at least he will die as a free being, and not as a slave.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“Throughout life man is constantly adjusting his assemblage point unconsciously. However, in doing so, he ‘forgets’ many of his experiences and the means by which he has arrived at that knowledge. To understand this it should be realised that the assemblage point is very much like the dial on a tuner. The purpose of such a dial is to enable us to access certain radio frequencies which give us a particular broadcasting station. Every time we move the dial we will access another band of frequencies which will of course constitute another station. The assemblage point of man works in exactly the same way in that it gives us access to certain energy fields which constitute our view of the world. Under the impact of this view we gain certain experiences and knowledge which are peculiar only to that particular view. If then we access other energy fields we also access another view. This new view causes us to lose contact with or to ‘forget’ the experiences and knowledge gained previously. Needless to say, we do not really forget. It is just that our old view becomes overlaid with the impact of our new view and its attendant experiences. When knowledge becomes overlaid in this manner it becomes what has been termed subliminal or subconscious. The fact that knowledge is subconscious does not imply that it ceases to influence our actions. On the contrary, our thoughts and feelings, and consequently also our actions, are continuously being influenced by this subconscious knowledge. This is why an apprentice will often struggle to break an old habit. Such subconscious knowledge has the tendency to pop up most unexpectedly, and the apprentice finds himself having concluded an act triggered by this subliminal knowledge even before he realises what he is doing. It therefore stands to reason that in order to have total recall and also to be able successfully to practise not-doing, it is necessary to be able to move the assemblage point back to all of its former positions. Only by accessing these former positions can we recall the knowledge gained there, and the habits initiated by those experiences. It is vital to grasp that it does not matter if at first we meet only with apparent failure. Paradoxical as it may sound, success in walking the Path of Knowledge does not lie in the outcome of our struggle, but only in how impeccably we struggle, because it is this struggle which forces us to move the assemblage point. Once we can move the assemblage point everything falls into place smoothly and effortlessly. The only thing which is a struggle is to make the assemblage point move in the first place. Once this has been accomplished the road lies clear ahead.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“Average man is ever seeking refuge in failure so that he can surrender on the terms of his reason, but it is not possible to fake failure or triumph.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“It is insanity for any man to wish for a different life to the one he has. Such wishes are based upon the demented idea that cowardice or laziness, or both, are honourable pursuits.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“Everything in life is but a challenge. Challenges can never be good or bad; we make of our challenges what we will.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“No man can claim that he would have power if his life or circumstances were different.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“Confusion is a wilfully induced state of mind. we can enter or exit it at will. Man deliberately confuses himself in order to plead ignorance.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“To seek out the disciplined and skilled ways of the hunter is the only true honour we may rightfully claim, and to seek the impeccability of the hunter’s spirit is the only possible justification for our existence.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“To be predictable is to become the hunted.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“The hunter does not plunder his world – he takes from it only what he truly needs. In this way the hunter ensures that his coffer, whether it holds friends, food, happiness or power, is never empty.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“The hunter handles his world with such care that he leaves no trail behind him. to leave a trail would be to become hunted by something more powerful than himself. The art of the hunter lies in his ability to choose both the timing and the location of his appearance. By doing this his interaction with the world becomes calculated and frugal, and thus the hunter avoids depleting both himself and the world around him.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“A hunter is an exceptionally disciplined man, for the parameters of his livelihood are precise.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“The best hunters are not those with a natural aptitude for hunting, but those who have had to struggle long and hard to learn every trick of the trade.”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I

“Consider every path carefully, testing it in whichever way you feel necessary – then ask yourself, but only yourself, one question: ‘does this path have a heart?”
― Théun Mares, Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings - Volume I