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know if you want to live like a warrior."
"How can I stop talking to myself?"
"First of all you must use your ears to take some of the burden from your eyes. We have been
using our eyes to judge the world since the time we were born. We talk to others and to
ourselves mainly about what we see. A warrior is aware of that and listens to the world; he
listens to the sounds of the world."
I put my notes away. Don Juan laughed and said that he did not mean I should force the issue,
that listening to the sounds of the world had to be done harmoniously and with great patience.
"A warrior is aware that the world will change as soon as he stops talking to himself," he said,
"and he must be prepared for that monumental jolt."
"What do you mean, don Juan?"
"The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it
is. If we stop telling ourselves that the world is so-and-so, the world will stop being so-and-so.
At this moment I don't think you're ready for such a momentous blow, therefore you must
start slowly to undo the world."
"I really do not understand you!"
"Your problem is that you confuse the world with what people do. Again you're not unique at
that. Every one of us does that. The things people do are the shields against the forces that
surround us; what we do as people gives us comfort and makes us feel safe; what people do is
rightfully very important, but only as a shield. We never learn that the things we do as people
are only shields and we let them dominate and topple our lives. In fact I could say that for
mankind, what people do is greater and more important than the world itself."
"What do you call the world?"
"The world is all that is encased here," he said, and stomped the ground. "Life, death, people,
the allies, and everything else that surrounds us. The world is incomprehensible. We won't
ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat it as it is, a sheer
mystery!
"An average man doesn't do this, though. The world is never a mystery for him, and when he
arrives at old age he is convinced he has nothing more to live for. An old man has not
exhausted the world. He has exhausted only what people do. But in his stupid confusion he
believes that the world has no more mysteries for him. What a wretched price to pay for our
shields!
"A warrior is aware of this confusion and learns to treat things properly. The things that
people do cannot under any conditions be more important than the world. And thus a warrior
treats the world as an endless mystery and what people do as an endless folly."