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“How can I know you if I don't know myself?”
― Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power

“We must remember that the only true wealth we have is the freedom of another human, not their entrapment.”
― Lujan Matus, Shadows in the Twilight: Conversations with a Shaman

“Life can be a process of observing
what we are interfering with,
rather than interfering with
what we are observing.”
― Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power

“You never leave yourself as an impression upon the world. The world always leaves its impression upon your silence. This is how we travel as seers, upon this feather-light touch.”
― Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power

“The most profound state of awareness comes from being devoted to your present circumstances, absorbing the sorrows and joys of others, so that you may see yourself within them, which in actuality is you.”
― Lujan Matus, The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception

“Be within your heart.
See and feel with your heart.
Recognize your heart within another.
Speak words from the heart.
Receive the words of another,
within those precious chambers.”
― Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power

“In most cases, it's not what you do but what you don't do that delivers you to a state of personal power.”
― Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power

“In the end we are the sum total of our doings and we will be faced by those doings at the moment of our death. Or is it our death in every moment that we live that faces us with what we do?”
― Lujan Matus, Shadows in the Twilight: Conversations with a Shaman

“Embodying recapitulation as a practical application to one’s path means not living the way you used to live, and being so completely in the moment that you are lost to yourself.”
― Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power

“Stalking is a very difficult art to come to terms with, for in reality, you can’t apply yourself to it. This art inevitably has to apply itself to you.”
― Lujan Matus, Shadows in the Twilight: Conversations with a Shaman

“This is everybody’s journey: to be experienced and witnessed within the confines of this frailty, which is our human body that moves towards its inevitable end. The only way to strengthen this frailty is to know exactly who you are and do exactly what you know you need to do. To claim your power this way is the only worthwhile journey to be undertaken as a human being.”
― Lujan Matus

“We can intend not to be our program.”
― Lujan Matus, Awakening the Third Eye: Discovering the True Essence of Recapitulation

“You have to live the way you are going to end up.”
― Lujan Matus, Shadows in the Twilight: Conversations with a Shaman

“When a not-doing comes upon you, and there is no reflection of yourself to be found, many things can and will be related back to you as knowledge, yet you have no way of knowing how you assimilated that wisdom.”
― Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power

“What we have become accustomed to witnessing is a social illusion that takes precedence due to the fact that the process is so intrusive that it becomes difficult to bear witness to the unobtrusive, which is so subtle in comparison.”
― Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power

“The old Oriental shamans had a much different view when they recalled the movements of kung fu.”
― Lujan Matus, The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception: The Living Tapestry of Lujan Matus

“We are responsible. There is nothing being done to us apart from what we are doing to ourselves.”
― Lujan Matus, The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception: The Living Tapestry of Lujan Matus

“It is what we Don't Do that matters." - The Power of Emptiness”
― Lujan Matus, 1

“When you consider your dreaming explorations, and
where you may be pulled within those journeys, be aware
that your daytime actions also bring consequences to alternate realms, and that there are beings who will actively waylay your voyaging awareness. To be waylaid is to waste
one’s life and one’s time.”
― Lujan Matus, The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception: The Living Tapestry of Lujan Matus

“Your journey is at hand and you are responsible.”
― Lujan Matus, The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception

“If a gesture is the most powerful command that you have, then words mean very little.”
― Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power

“Adaptation without corruption is the key to personal power.”
― Lujan Matus, The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception: The Living Tapestry of Lujan Matus

“Our essential task is to deliver a method of stalking shadow attention so as to free humanity from that influence.”
― Lujan Matus, The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception: The Living Tapestry of Lujan Matus

“The only path that has any meaning is one that resolves your being in the feeling that your heart is empowered by doing what is necessary for your existence.”
― Lujan Matus, Shadows in the Twilight: Conversations with a Shaman

“In shamanism it is not the jaguar or the crow that has meaning, it is what follows from whatever you view as an energetic transfer.”
― Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power

“Constant renewal is the only internally vibrant point of reference that we can truly recapitulate, via the fact that we wait for it to manifest as an arrival that has wisdom encased within it, instead of a subjective injection that reflects one’s wants and needs, which may be socially bound to what is incorrect.”
― Lujan Matus, The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception: The Living Tapestry of Lujan Matus

“You can experience your dreams externally, but if your scripted responses get in the way, all there will be are branches and shadows in your life, nothing more.”
― Lujan Matus, Shadows in the Twilight: Conversations with a Shaman