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"A promise like that cannot be changed by just saying so. Perhaps very soon you'll be able to
know what to do about changing it. Then perhaps you'll even get to see."
"Can you give me any suggestions, don Juan?"
"You must wait patiently, knowing that you're waiting, and knowing what you're waiting for.
That is the warrior's way. And if it is a matter of fulfilling your promise then you must be
aware that you are fulfilling it. Then a time will come when your waiting will be over and you
will no longer have to honor your promise. There is nothing you can do for that little boy's
life. Only he could cancel that act."
"But how can he?"
"By learning to reduce his wants to nothing. As long as he thinks that he was a victim, his life
will be hell. And as long as you think the same your promise will be valid. What makes us
unhappy is to want. Yet if we would learn to cut our wants to nothing, the smallest thing we'd
get would be a true gift. Be in peace, you made a good gift to Joaquin. To be poor or wanting
is only a thought; and so is to hate, or to be hungry, or to be in pain."
"I cannot truly believe that, don Juan. How could hunger and pain be only thoughts?"
"They are only thoughts for me now. That's all I know. I have accomplished that feat. The
power to do that is all we have, mind you, to oppose the forces of our lives; without that
power we are dregs, dust in the wind."
"I have no doubt that you have done it, don Juan, but how can a simple man like myself or
little Joaquin accomplish that?"
"It is up to us as single individuals to oppose the forces of our lives. I have said this to you
countless times: Only a warrior can survive. A warrior knows that he is waiting and what he is
waiting for; and while he waits he wants nothing and thus whatever little thing he gets is more
than he can take. If he needs to eat he finds a way, because he is not hungry; if something
hurts his body he finds a way to stop it, because he is not in pain. To be hungry or to be in
pain means that the man has abandoned himself and is no longer a warrior; and the forces of
his hunger and pain will destroy him."
I wanted to go on arguing my point, but I stopped because I realized that by arguing I was
making a barrier to protect myself from the devastating force of don Juan's superb feat which
had touched me so deeply and with such a power. How did he know?

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