Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one release one’s sadness, don Juan said. A warrior is always joyful because his love is unalterable and his beloved, the earth, embraces him and bestows upon him inconceivable gifts.
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The sadness belongs only to those who hate the very thing that gives shelter to their beings.
Don Juan again caressed the ground with tenderness.
This lovely being, which is alive to its last recesses and understands every feeling, soothed me, it cured me of my pains, and finally when I had fully understood my love for it, it taught me freedom.
- Tales of Power “The Predilection of Two Warriors,” pp. 292-3 – Carlos Castaneda
