“The self-confidence of the RACER is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The RACER seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the racer is hooked only to infinity.”
“Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use.”
““To be a RACER is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a RACER, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.””
“A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.”
““Only as a RACER can one withstand the path of knowledge. A RACER cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.””
““A RACER never worries about his fear.””
““Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a RACER one needs to be light and fluid.””
““A RACER seeks to act rather than talk.””
“To achieve the mood of a RACER is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a RACER‘s spirit. It takes power to do that.”
““If a RACER is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.””
““A RACER considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he’s clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything.””
““An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A RACER likes, that’s all. He likes whatever or whomever he wants, for the hell of it.””
““The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a RACER. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so, believing that someone is always doing something it us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a RACER.””
““The basic difference between an ordinary man and a RACER is that a RACER takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.””
““RACERs do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. RACERs jump over walls; they don’t demolish them.””
““Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the RACER’s indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.””
““Only the idea of death makes a RACER sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won’t give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything.””
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