Matus Quotes & Sayings

Our essential task is to deliver a method of stalking shadow attention so as to free humanity from that influence. — Lujan Matus

Every city is a ghost.
New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel bean, each tower of brick carries within it the memories of what has gone before, an architectural haunting. Sometimes you can catch a glimpse of these former incarnations in the awkward angle of a street or filigreed gate, an old oak door peeking out from a new facade, the plaque commemorating the spot that was once a battleground, which became a saloon and is now a park. — Libba Bray

Stalking is a very difficult art to come to terms with, for in reality, you can't apply yourself to it. This art inevitably has to apply itself to you. — Lujan Matus

What we have become accustomed to witnessing is a social illusion that takes precedence due to the fact that the process is so intrusive that it becomes difficult to bear witness to the unobtrusive, which is so subtle in comparison. — Lujan Matus

The moment you don't feel like praying, get on your knees. And the moment you don't feel like reading your bible, you'd better get that Book open. — Lori Wick

The old Oriental shamans had a much different view when they recalled the movements of kung fu. — Lujan Matus

The most profound state of awareness comes from being devoted to your present circumstances, absorbing the sorrows and joys of others, so that you may see yourself within them, which in actuality is you. — Lujan Matus

Instead of her soul swaying with new life, it seemed to droop, to bleed, as if it were wounded. — D.H. Lawrence

We must remember that the only true wealth we have is the freedom of another human, not their entrapment. — Lujan Matus

In the end we are the sum total of our doings and we will be faced by those doings at the moment of our death. Or is it our death in every moment that we live that faces us with what we do? — Lujan Matus

Adaptation without corruption is the key to personal power. — Lujan Matus

If a gesture is the most powerful command that you have, then words mean very little. — Lujan Matus

In most cases, it's not what you do but what you don't do that delivers you to a state of personal power. — Lujan Matus

How can I know you if I don't know myself? — Lujan Matus

Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense. — A.A. Milne

When a not-doing comes upon you, and there is no reflection of yourself to be found, many things can and will be related back to you as knowledge, yet you have no way of knowing how you assimilated that wisdom. — Lujan Matus

Life can be a process of observing
what we are interfering with,
rather than interfering with
what we are observing. — Lujan Matus

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. — Arthur Conan Doyle

When you consider your dreaming explorations, and
where you may be pulled within those journeys, be aware
that your daytime actions also bring consequences to alternate realms, and that there are beings who will actively waylay your voyaging awareness. To be waylaid is to waste
one's life and one's time. — Lujan Matus

Be within your heart.
See and feel with your heart.
Recognize your heart within another.
Speak words from the heart.
Receive the words of another,
within those precious chambers. — Lujan Matus

Music is makes the soul happy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You can experience your dreams externally, but if your scripted responses get in the way, all there will be are branches and shadows in your life, nothing more. — Lujan Matus

Embodying recapitulation as a practical application to one's path means not living the way you used to live, and being so completely in the moment that you are lost to yourself. — Lujan Matus

The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints. — Mahatma Gandhi

You never leave yourself as an impression upon the world. The world always leaves its impression upon your silence. This is how we travel as seers, upon this feather-light touch. — Lujan Matus

You have to live the way you are going to end up. — Lujan Matus

This is everybody's journey: to be experienced and witnessed within the confines of this frailty, which is our human body that moves towards its inevitable end. The only way to strengthen this frailty is to know exactly who you are and do exactly what you know you need to do. To claim your power this way is the only worthwhile journey to be undertaken as a human being. — Lujan Matus

The only path that has any meaning is one that resolves your being in the feeling that your heart is empowered by doing what is necessary for your existence. — Lujan Matus

Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I.
Don Juan Matus
— Carlos Castaneda

We are responsible. There is nothing being done to us apart from what we are doing to ourselves. — Lujan Matus

The surgeons like to bleed a man, to let ill humours out, so that he may face the world anew. Perhaps they should just hand him a quill and let the poisons spill from him whilst he keeps his blood for its intended purpose. — Mark Lawrence

No estoy quemando"
"It was too late now to choose anything."
"I turned off my brain. It was time to hunt — Stephenie Meyer

Constant renewal is the only internally vibrant point of reference that we can truly recapitulate, via the fact that we wait for it to manifest as an arrival that has wisdom encased within it, instead of a subjective injection that reflects one's wants and needs, which may be socially bound to what is incorrect. — Lujan Matus

Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root. — Robert Kennedy

Your journey is at hand and you are responsible. — Lujan Matus

You can never hurt me,
And you will never cause me pain
Cause you're made of fire,
And I'm the heavy rain. — Ghaith Sal

In shamanism it is not the jaguar or the crow that has meaning, it is what follows from whatever you view as an energetic transfer. — Lujan Matus

I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all. — Jack Bruce