Recapitulation Quotes

“In most cases, it's not what you do but what you don't do that delivers you to a state of personal power.”
― Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power

“Embodying recapitulation as a practical application to one’s path means not living the way you used to live, and being so completely in the moment that you are lost to yourself.”
― Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power

“Stalking is a very difficult art to come to terms with, for in reality, you can’t apply yourself to it. This art inevitably has to apply itself to you.”
― Lujan Matus, Shadows in the Twilight: Conversations with a Shaman

“The old Oriental shamans had a much different view when they recalled the movements of kung fu.”
― Lujan Matus, The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception: The Living Tapestry of Lujan Matus

“IN WORKING WITH MIRRORS IT IS NECESSARY TO RECAPITULATE YOUR ENTIRE LIFE, FROM THE PRESENT MOMENT RIGHT BACK TO THE MOMENT OF BIRTH. SUCH A RECAPITULATION DEMANDS A LEVEL OF HONESTY WHICH IS ONLY ATTAINABLE THROUGH AN ACT OF RUTHLESSNESS. RUTHLESSNESS MUST BEGIN WITH YOURSELF. ONLY WHEN RUTHLESSNESS HAS REPLACED SELF-PITY CAN YOU ACHIEVE THE SOBRIETY NEEDED IN ORDER TO DISCRIMINATE WITH WISDOM.”
― Théun Mares

“Constant renewal is the only internally vibrant point of reference that we can truly recapitulate, via the fact that we wait for it to manifest as an arrival that has wisdom encased within it, instead of a subjective injection that reflects one’s wants and needs, which may be socially bound to what is incorrect.”
― Lujan Matus, The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception: The Living Tapestry of Lujan Matus