A sorcerer has no notion that he is in two places at once…a sorcerer who finds himself face to face with himself is a dead sorcerer. That is the rule. That is the way power has set things up. No one knows why. (Power, 46)

The rule calls for the benefactor and the teacher to make the final trimming [splitting the man]. (Power, 192)

You would have been impeccable and power would have opened all the necessary avenues. That is the rule. (Power, 243)

The rule is that a man of knowledge has to trap his apprentice. Today I have trapped you and I have tricked you into learning. (Reality, 211)

The Nagual didn’t make the rule. The rule is made out there, and not by man. (Ring, 242)