The old man stood up and began to walk toward a jagged line of purple mountains. As he moved, his silhouette seemed to flicker, stretching into something long and predatory before snapping back to human form.
"Understanding is the booby prize," the old man laughed, a sound like dry leaves skittering over pavement. "The Nagual doesn't want your understanding. It wants your intent. You’ve read the words. Now, are you going to stay in the book, or are you going to walk?" Carlos Castaneda – All Books In One - PDF
Back in Seattle, an apartment sat empty. On a glowing computer screen, the cursor blinked at the very end of a 2,400-page document. The last page was blank, save for a single line of text that hadn't been there before: He left the desk to find the path with a heart. The old man stood up and began to
"I am a series of descriptions," the old man said, echoing a line Elias had read only moments before. "And you are a man who thinks he can find the 'crack between the worlds' in a PDF file. You think power is something you download?" "The Nagual doesn't want your understanding