[We have a new purpose] and that new purpose requires that we become light as a breeze. The breeze is our new mood. It used to be the hot wind. You have changed our direction.
You can spur yourself beyond your limits if you are in the proper mood. A warrior makes his own mood…anything can serve to get you into it. (Ring, 281)

Everything you did last night was done within a proper mood…(Ixtlan, 49)

It is convenient to act in such a mood. It cuts through the crap and leaves one purified.
One needs the mood of a warrior for every single act. Otherwise one becomes distorted and ugly…
A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions. (Ixtlan, 150)

To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of the warrior’s spirit. It takes power to do that. (Ixtlan, 151)