"There was an abyss between our understanding of how to teach something. I told them that if I were to teach them something I knew, such as how to drive a car, I would go step by step, making sure they understood every facet of the whole procedure.
La Gorda returned to the table.
That's only if the sorcerer is teaching the tonal, she said. When the sorcerer is dealing with the nagual, he must give the instruction, which is to show the mystery to the warrior. And that is all he has to do. The warrior who receives the mysteries must claim knowledge as power, by doing what he has been shown."
"...The tonal and the nagual are two different worlds. In one you talk, in the other you act."
Second Ring of Power, p 269
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It is always refreshing when CC and Co, come by to help illuminate the sometime moss covered boundary markers along our path with heart. Just in case we need a reminder of what path we once set out on so long ago is still very much right in front of us.
If the heart leaps, there's nothing in this world that can hold it back.
Claiming is a valued skill.