Sabrina Satanas
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You must act like a warrior. One learns to act like a warrior by acting, not by talking. A warrior has only his <cite>will</cite> and his patience and with them he builds anything he wants. You have no more time for retreats or for regrets. You only have time to live like a warrior and work for patience and <cite>will</cite> .
<cite>Will </cite> is something very special. It happens mysteriously. There is no real way of telling how one uses it, except that the results of using the <cite>will</cite> are astounding. Perhaps the first thing that one should do is to know that one can develop the <cite>will</cite> . A warrior knows that and proceeds to wait for it.
A warrior knows that he is waiting and knows what he is waiting for. It is very difficult, if not impossible, for the average man to know what he is waiting for. A warrior, however, has no problems; he knows that he is waiting for his <cite>will</cite> .
<cite>Will</cite> is something very clear and powerful which can direct our acts. <cite>Will</cite> is something a man uses, for instance, to win a battle which he, by all calculations, should lose. It is not what we call courage. Courage is something else. Men of courage are dependable men, noble men perennially surrounded by people who flock around them and admire them; yet very few men of courage have <cite>will</cite> . Usually they are fearless men who are given to performing daring common-sense acts; most of the time a courageous man is also fearsome and feared. <cite>Will</cite> , on the other hand, has to do with astonishing feats that defy our common sense. You may say that it is a kind of control.
<cite>Will</cite> is not what one calls "will power." Denying oneself certain things with "will power," is an indulgence and I don't recommend anything of the kind. The indulgence of denying is by far the worst; it forces us to believe we are doing great things, when in effect we are only fixed within ourselves.
<cite>Will</cite> is a power. And since it is a power it has to be controlled and tuned and that takes time. When I was your age I was as impulsive as you. Yet I have changed. Our <cite>will</cite> operates in spite of our indulgence. For example your <cite>will</cite> is already opening your gap, little by little.
There is a gap in us; like the soft spot on the head of a child which closes with age, this gap opens as one develops one's <cite>will</cite> . It's an opening. It allows a space for the <cite>will</cite> to shoot out, like an arrow. What a sorcerer calls <cite>will</cite> is a power within ourselves. It is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. An act of "will power" is not <cite>will</cite> because such an act needs thinking and wishing. <cite>Will</cite> is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated. <cite>Will</cite> is a force which is the true link between men and the world.
The world is whatever we perceive, in any manner we may choose to perceive. Perceiving the world entails a process of apprehending whatever presents itself to us. This particular perceiving is done with our senses and with our <cite>will</cite> . <cite>Will</cite> is a relation between ourselves and the perceived world.
What the average man calls will is character and strong disposition. What a sorcerer calls <cite>will</cite> is a force that comes from within and attaches itself to the world out there. One can perceive the world with the senses as well as with the <cite>will</cite> .
An average man can "grab" the things of the world only with his hands, or his senses, but a sorcerer can grab them also with his <cite>will</cite> . I cannot really describe how it is done, but you yourself, for instance, cannot describe to me how you hear. It happens that I am also capable of hearing, so we can talk about what we hear, but not about how we hear. A sorcerer uses his <cite>will</cite> to perceive the world. That perceiving, however, is not like hearing. When we look at the world or when we hear it, we have the impression that it is out there and that it is real. When we perceive the world with our <cite>will</cite> we know that the world is not as "out there" or as "real" as we think.
<cite>Will</cite> is a force, a power. <cite>Seeing</cite> is not a force, but rather a way of getting through things. A sorcerer may have a very strong <cite>will</cite> and yet he may not <cite>see</cite> ; which means that only a man of knowledge perceives the world with his senses and with his<cite> will</cite> and also with his <cite>seeing</cite> .
Now you know you are waiting for your<cite> will</cite> . You still don't know what it is, or how it could happen to you. So watch carefully everything you do. The very thing that could help you develop your<cite> will</cite> is amidst all the little things you do. http://www.prismagems.com/castaneda/donjuan2.html * * * [/TD]
