In a lecture in which he was explaining to us various methods naguals used to help their apprentices, one of the present, interrupting him, threw this at him:
"Carlos, you always say that without the nagual there is no freedom, but that's because you had a teacher! What can we do, those of us who weren't so lucky?"
He exploded:
"It is not true, you have all the information you need! What more do you want? Do you hope to get everything for free, without any effort? If you believe that somebody else will do the work for you, you are fucked up!"
In a reproachful tone, he made fun of the human laziness which makes us hope that others will do things and give us the greatest possible advantage. He called this 'the antithesis of a warrior's behavior."
"All that a man needs is the minimal chance: To be made aware of the possibilities discovered by sorcerers. A warrior doesn't go around hoping they will come and kick him in the butt to make him move; he is ahead and he says: 'I can do it! And I can do it alone!'"