The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

Going forward, I need to daily “do what I know to do.” Not the rationale of fulfilling some role or image but the deeper knowing of the moment.

Where else in my life was there a path that I was missing? The implications felt profound.

To this day I wonder about the courage I found underneath the fear. I wonder if I could find it again. I wonder if it is wrong to look for it. I know that one of the great dangers of my life would be to live without danger.

When it’s time to work, he works. When it’s time to rest, he rests. It’s hard to grasp the change in the quality of your consciousness until you have spent a few days and then weeks and then months in a wilderness.

Shoulds are full of traps—traps laid by society and your limited rules for yourself.

Amidst all of the information that surrounds us, learn to see what is deeply important to you. Use the feelings in your body as a guide. Live on first tracks. Anything that puts you into your essence, no matter how small, is valuable.

Neurosis is a substitute for real suffering. Fearfulness is the most common state in a life that asks for no real courage.

for him the only choice is the one he has made. He knows any choice will set something in motion.

your beliefs about life are not reality.

The father washes onto the son. He lives inside you as an aspiration, a disappointment, or a fear.