“Shut off the internal bashing.”

“The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue”

“It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.”

“People do not realize in [the U.S], for example, how tenuous our ties to international energy are. That is, we on a daily basis require continuous flow. If that flow is shut off, it causes catastrophic effects in the industrial world. And it's that which made [Saddam Hussein] far more important to get out than bin Laden.”

“At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.”

“Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.”