Being inaccessible.
"To be inaccessible means that you touch the world around you sparingly. You don't eat five quail; you eat one. You don't damage the plants just to make a barbecue pit. You don't expose yourself to the power of the wind unless it is mandatory. You don't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people you love."
I have never used anyone.
But he said that I had,
"To be unavailable means that you deliberately avoid exhausting yourself and others. It means that you are not hungry and desperate, like the poor bastard that feels he will never eat again and devours all the food he can, all five quail!"
"A hunter knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again; so he doesn't worry. To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to."
I told him that in order to function I had to be within reach of everyone that had something to do with me.
"I've told you already that to be inaccessible does not mean to hide or to be secretive. It doesn't mean that you cannot deal with people either. A hunter uses his world sparingly and with tenderness, regardless of whether the world might be things, or plants, or animals, or people, or power. A hunter deals intimately with his world and yet he is inaccessible to that same world."
I told him that's a contradiction, he cannot be inaccessible if he is there in his world, hour after hour, day after day.
"You did not understand, he is inaccessible because he's not squeezing his world out of shape. He taps it lightly, stays for as long as he needs to, and then swiftly moves away leaving hardly a mark."
If you want to understand more you need to be inaccessible. That means don't live by a certain routine, day after day, or the hunter will figure you out and shoot you down.
I have never used anyone.
But he said that I had,
"To be unavailable means that you deliberately avoid exhausting yourself and others. It means that you are not hungry and desperate, like the poor bastard that feels he will never eat again and devours all the food he can, all five quail!"
"A hunter knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again; so he doesn't worry. To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to."
I told him that in order to function I had to be within reach of everyone that had something to do with me.
"I've told you already that to be inaccessible does not mean to hide or to be secretive. It doesn't mean that you cannot deal with people either. A hunter uses his world sparingly and with tenderness, regardless of whether the world might be things, or plants, or animals, or people, or power. A hunter deals intimately with his world and yet he is inaccessible to that same world."
I told him that's a contradiction, he cannot be inaccessible if he is there in his world, hour after hour, day after day.
"You did not understand, he is inaccessible because he's not squeezing his world out of shape. He taps it lightly, stays for as long as he needs to, and then swiftly moves away leaving hardly a mark."
If you want to understand more you need to be inaccessible. That means don't live by a certain routine, day after day, or the hunter will figure you out and shoot you down.