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1 " When a not-doing comes upon you, and there is no reflection of yourself to be found, many things can and will be related back to you as knowledge, yet you have no way of knowing how you assimilated that wisdom. "
― Lujan Matus , Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power
2 " The only path that has any meaning is one that resolves your being in the feeling that your heart is empowered by doing what is necessary for your existence. "
― Lujan Matus , Shadows in the Twilight: Conversations with a Shaman
3 " If a gesture is the most powerful command that you have, then words mean very little. "
4 " In shamanism it is not the jaguar or the crow that has meaning, it is what follows from whatever you view as an energetic transfer. "
5 " We must remember that the only true wealth we have is the freedom of another human, not their entrapment. "
6 " You have to live the way you are going to end up. "
7 " Be within your heart.See and feel with your heart.Recognize your heart within another.Speak words from the heart.Receive the words of another,within those precious chambers. "
8 " In most cases, it's not what you do but what you don't do that delivers you to a state of personal power. "
9 " We are responsible. There is nothing being done to us apart from what we are doing to ourselves. "
― Lujan Matus , The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception: Revised 10th Anniversary Edition: The Living Tapestry of Lujan Matus
10 " This is everybody’s journey: to be experienced and witnessed within the confines of this frailty, which is our human body that moves towards its inevitable end. The only way to strengthen this frailty is to know exactly who you are and do exactly what you know you need to do. To claim your power this way is the only worthwhile journey to be undertaken as a human being. "
― Lujan Matus
11 " The most profound state of awareness comes from being devoted to your present circumstances, absorbing the sorrows and joys of others, so that you may see yourself within them, which in actuality is you. "
― Lujan Matus , The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception
12 " We can intend not to be our program. "
― Lujan Matus , Awakening the Third Eye: Discovering the True Essence of Recapitulation
13 " How can I know you if I don't know myself? "
14 " Life can be a process of observingwhat we are interfering with,rather than interfering withwhat we are observing. "
15 " You never leave yourself as an impression upon the world. The world always leaves its impression upon your silence. This is how we travel as seers, upon this feather-light touch. "
16 " Embodying recapitulation as a practical application to one’s path means not living the way you used to live, and being so completely in the moment that you are lost to yourself. "
17 " When you consider your dreaming explorations, andwhere you may be pulled within those journeys, be awarethat your daytime actions also bring consequences to alternate realms, and that there are beings who will actively waylay your voyaging awareness. To be waylaid is to wasteone’s life and one’s time. "
18 " In the end we are the sum total of our doings and we will be faced by those doings at the moment of our death. Or is it our death in every moment that we live that faces us with what we do? "
19 " You can experience your dreams externally, but if your scripted responses get in the way, all there will be are branches and shadows in your life, nothing more. "
20 " The old Oriental shamans had a much different view when they recalled the movements of kung fu. "
