（外文电子版资料）3. Journey to Ixtlan.docVIP

Journey to Ixtlan ? ? ? There is no need for us to say anything about others. There is no need for you or for me to regard others actions in our thoughts one way or another. The worst thing we can do is to force people to agree with us. I mean that we shouldnt try to impose our will when people dont behave the way we want them to. The worst thing one can do is to confront human beings bluntly. A warrior proceeds strategically. If one wants to stop our fellow men one must always be outside the circle that presses them. That way one can always direct the pressure.? ? ? * * *? ? ? Fright never injures anyone.? ? ? * * *? ? ? What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do.? ? ? ? ? ? People hardly ever realize that we can cut anything from our lives, any time, just like that. For example, smoking and drinking are nothing. Nothing at all if we want to drop them. Only one thing is indispensable for anything we do; the spirit. One cant do without the spirit.? ? ? ? ? ? I have no routines or personal history. One day I found out that they were no longer necessary for me and, like drinking, I dropped them. One must have the desire to drop them and then one must proceed harmoniously to chop them off, little by little. If you have no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with your acts. And above all no one pins you down with their thoughts. It is best to erase all personal history because that makes us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people. I have, little by little, created a fog around me and my life. And now nobody knows for sure who I am or what I do. Not even I. How can I know who I am, when I am all this?? ? ? Little by little you must create a fog around yourself; you must erase everything around you until nothing can be taken for granted, until nothing is any longer for sure, or real. Your problem now is that youre too real. Your endeav