the little voice

Don Juan Matus says that we use our mental dialog to explain the world to ourselves; it's how we make sense of everything and put our universe into order. He also says it's neccesary for the warrior to turn off this mental dialog... and though I haven't found an articulated reason for this precept yet (which is strange because usually Carlos questions *everything*), I believe it's because we not only interpret the world by this means, we actually assemble the world when we are having those little conversations with ourselves because the world will almost always conform to our expectations and presumptions of it. When we shut off this perpetual commentary we open ourselves up to much more than what our labels and definitions inevitably restrict. It allows the unexpected; the impossible.