Being is meditating twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Behavior as it is normally defined no longer exists… Accordngly, being is an optimal state. Plus, you’re not just passively hanging around, letting things happen to you; you have momentum. And this momentum is a key ingredient of being; it is the process of becoming. That is, while being you’re continuously becoming your core nature.”

–Ken Eagle Feather, “On the Toltec Path: A Practical Guide to the Teachings of don Juan Matus, Carlos Castaneda, and Other Toltec Seers.”

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