Juggling blood and fire

CHRIS: I’m thinking about going to Alaska.
WAYNE: Alaska, Alaska? Or city Alaska? The city Alaska does have markets.
CHRIS: No, Alaska, Alaska. I want to be all the way out there. On my own. No map. No watch. No axe. Just out there. Big mountains, rivers, sky. Game. Just be out there in it. In the wild.
WAYNE: In the wild.
CHRIS: Yeah. Maybe write a book about my travels. About getting out of this sick society.
WAYNE: Society, right.
CHRIS: Because you know what I don’t understand? I don’t understand why, why people are so bad to each other, so often. It just doesn’t make any sense to me. Judgement. Control. All that.
WAYNE: Who “people” we talking about?
CHRIS: You know, parents and hypocrites. Politicians and pricks.
WAYNE: This is a mistake. It’s a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff. Alex, you’re a helluva young guy, but I promise you this: You’re a young guy. Blood and fire! You’re juggling blood and fire!

— Into the Wild

Ultimate Freedom

Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes, Ultimate Freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return `cause the “west is the best”. And now after two rambling years, comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking, bringing him to the great white north. No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.

— ALEXANDER SUPERTRAMP MAY 1992 (in Into the Wild)

Breath, mind and voice

The more we learn to link the use of breath, mind, and voice, the greater our own power in life.

— Ted Andrews

You are

You are the way you are because that’s the way you want to be. If you really wanted to be any different, you would be in the process of changing right now.

— Fred Smith

Things happen

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.

— Hugh Prather

Become the change

Ultimately, what we’ll discover, as individuals and collectively, is that while we may attempt to hammer our world into submission through pure force and might, lasting change will only come from within. We must become the very change we choose to experience in our world.

— Gregg Braden