Quotes from Théun Mares

Challenges are unique to every individual. What makes a challenge difficult or easy is the level of power inherent within it. Easy challenges do not require a great deal of effort, and therefore their yields are poor. Difficult challenges, on the other hand, require a great deal of effort, and in exercising the will in order to conquer them, they yield magnificent gifts of power.

Ignorance is no excuse. Deep down inside, all of us know exactly who and what we are, and what we should be doing in this lifetime.

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.

There is a vast difference between academic thought and intelligence. Academic thought can only function within the context of separativeness, whilst intelligence is a spontaneous co-operation with the fundamental wholeness that is inherent within the process of life.

Should a warrior feel the need to be comforted, he simply chooses anyone or anything, be it friend, dog, or mountain, to whom he expresses his innermost feelings. It does not matter to the warrior if he is not answered, or if he is not heard, because he is not seeking to be understood or helped - by talking he is merely releasing the pressure of his battle.

The warrior knows that the world is not what it appears to be, and therefore does not make the mistake of assuming anything to be merely a logical necessity.

If you want to meet your fate in life you must start from where you are. You cannot start by first wanting to know your fate, for fate is not a rigid course from which there can be no deviation - it is instead a wondrous journey of possibilities; each possibility bringing its own challenges and knowledge.

Transformation is the process of death in which the warrior actively engages once he or she embarks upon the warrior's path. It starts with transmutation and ends in transfiguration.

A warrior cuts out all unnecessary acts; in this way he saves his personal power.

The warrior lives by challenge; therefore his life is a disciplined strategy.

Denial is the worst form of self-indulgence. A warrior sees his faults as being his passage to power.

WARRIORS KNOW EVERY ASPECT OF THEIR BEING MOST INTIMATELY, EVEN THEIR LATENT TENDENCIES, AND MOST ESPECIALLY THEIR HIDDEN POTENTIAL. TO ACHIEVE THIS WARRIORS USE THE WORLD AROUND THEM AS A MIRROR, FOR IN THAT MIRROR ALL STANDS REVEALED. .

A warrior has to believe, otherwise he cannot activate his intent positively.

If you are going to stop the world you must claim your power, but no man can claim his power if he feels unworthy of it.

The mark of the true male is courage, but to have courage the man must take heart.

The only failure in life is the failure to fight.

Man's only justification for physical existence is to learn; this is his destiny which he cannot avoid under any circumstances.

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.

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.

No man can survive the path of knowledge if he is not prepared to embrace death. Death is a warrior's best advisor.

Warriors win battles, not by ignoring them, but through clarity.

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.

Impeccability is to act to the very best of your ability upon whatever knowledge happens to be available to you at any given moment.

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.