Quotes from Théun Mares

In order to erase his personal history the warrior must create around himself a fog in which nothing about him seems tangible. Only tangible people have personal history.

Concepts such as age, place of birth and parentage can only have meaning within the context of personal history.

To stop the world is a superb act of magic. Once a warrior has accomplished this feat he is a free being with power at his command, and thus his destiny begins to unfold in the most marvellous and miraculous way.

In order to stop the world it is imperative for you to realise that you must stop indulging in your view of the world - only then will you be able to muster enough personal power to make the leap to freedom.

The mistake of man is that he always seeks explanations which uphold his view of the world.

Only those who come to the warrior's path prepared to die can possibly hope to succeed.

The nature of the female is that she brings forth from out of her own depths fragments of the unknown which it is the duty of the male to make practical upon the physical plane, because it is he who has the ability to reason out what the female has intuited. To this effect the male must also apply his feeling to that which the female brings him, so that he can follow her, and in so doing, fathom the practicability of her gift. In this way male and female together map out the unknown.

The whole of society pivots around that force which man has come to uphold as his principal deity - egotism. Under the influence of this jealous deity, man is forced to perceive the world around him only in terms of gross separativeness; his prevailing thoughts ever centred upon the theme of 'i here, and the world out there'.

All that is needed in order to move the assemblage point is, firstly, the knowledge that it is possible; and secondly, sufficient personal power with which to do so.

No man can be trapped without his consent.

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?

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.

A hunter is an exceptionally disciplined man, for the parameters of his livelihood are precise.

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.

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.

The world is what you have chosen to believe it is. Likewise you are whatever you have chosen to believe you are.

To be predictable is to become the hunted.

We are all the product of our thoughts and our feelings, and the circumstances in which destiny unfolds arise because we have called them forth according to our view of the world.

No warrior runs away from his challenges, but, conversely, a warrior also chooses his battles. It is senseless to fight a battle in which there are no desired stakes.

We are whatever we believe ourselves to be.

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.

An apprentice starts off with the certainty that only by disciplining himself into becoming an impeccable warrior can he live his life without regrets, but by the time he has achieved warriorship, he knows beyond all controversy that impeccability of the spirit is for him his innermost predilection.

In the presence of death everything becomes power, and ordinary acts become imbued with magic.

Belief is not blind faith - belief is a powerful act of magic.