How to choose a path

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" Look at each path closely & delibrately. Try it as many times as you

want. Then ask yourself, & yourself alone, just one question. It is a

question only a very old man can ask. My teacher asked me this, but I

was young & hot blooded, so didnt understand the question.

 

Now I understand the question- I will tell yo what it is: Does this

path have a heart? All paths are the same- they lead nowhere. Does

this path have a heart? If it does, it is good, else it is bad.

 

Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, & the other doesnt. One

makes for a joyful journey, the other makes you curse your life. One

make you strong, the other weakes you. "

 

Don Juan, in " Teachings of Don Juan