Цитаты из книги Tiger's Tale

As a shaman, we spend time separated from our corporeal frames. We explore the realms of the spirit to learn, and then we must seek our bodies and merge once more, becoming a soul again in truth. Some go too long apart, and it weakens their bodies to the point of decay. When that happens, they can never return. They become wandering shades who haunt the living. It’s a terrible thing.

This déjà vu you spoke of is a sign of it. When you experience such a thing, it is because your kindred soul has or is experiencing something similar on their world, such as when we touched fingertips.

“But we don’t look alike.”
“Don’t we? I cannot see your mortal frame, so I have no reference. The physical makes no difference. Our souls can be very alike or very different, depending on the fit. Some worlds are so different that there is no place for a kindred soul. Some are never born on one world. But the cosmos makes up for it by putting two kindred souls on the next world in the form of twins.”

I am your kindred soul on this world. I am certain of it. I felt it when our fingers touched. When I study you with my seeing eye, it is like looking at myself in a still pool. When one meets a kindred soul, also called a mirror, or a reflection, it can be a good meeting, or it can be a terrible thing.

May the snow be solid beneath your feet.

Пусть снег будет крепким под вашими ногами.

“But I won’t know where you are buried.”
“That won’t matter. It’s only a body I’ll leave behind — an empty shell. You’ll know where to find me. Just look up. I’ll be there. Watching over you always, my son.
[...] And remember: no matter what you choose, I love you.”

Если предки чему-то и научили ее за долгие суровые зимы, так это тому, что на направление огромного несущегося стада можно повлиять даже с помощью такой простой вещи, как колышущийся лист.

Те, кто относятся к своим ближним с добротой и добротой, кто ценит жизнь и живет так, что оставляет после себя больше, чем берет, кто назидает и учит молодежь, передавая ей свою мудрость и ценности, покинув этот мир, вернутся в лоно своего создателя, живя в состоянии, которое обычно определяется как место мира и радости.

if there was one thing the ancestors had taught her over the long, harsh winters, it was that the direction of a great stampeding herd could be impacted by something as simple as a blowing leaf.

“Nor is it easy trying to live up to everyone else’s expectations and constantly failing,” Iriko said.

Those who treat their fellow man with goodness and kindness, who value life and live in such a way that they leave behind more than they take, people who edify and teach the young, passing on their wisdom and values, will, when they depart this world, return to the bosom of their creator, living in a condition that is typically defined as a place of peace and joy.

To my way of thinking, though the stories of our origins on this world differ, there are basic fundamentals in common enough to ascertain certain things that ring true across cultures.

... there is never an end to one’s learning.

There are some things that, once broken, are gone forever.

You might close your eyes and breathe in deeply.
Hold it and count to five, then breathe out while counting to five again.
Do this for a series of five to ten times until you feel yourself centering.
Remember that you are alive, and while you are alive, no matter what trials life brings, you still have a chance to overcome them and attain your goals.

Let’s not worry about the empire just yet, shall we?
How about instead we worry about riding out the storm first?
You know, surviving? The first time I went out hunting with my cousin and started complaining about my feet, he said, ‘Don’t look at the mountain in the distance. Just focus on the hill in front of you.’

Старые раны вызывают оцепенение, и некоторые из них гноятся и требуют серьёзной чистки или даже ампутации, прежде чем смогут зажить, но, по моему опыту, тело по своей природе стремится к исцелению.

Long ago she’d learned from her father that those who have ongoing battles in their minds sometimes get confused on the battlefield.
They make mistakes, very often dangerous ones that could lead not only to tremendous losses but even catastrophic outcomes in war.

Her father had taught her from a young age that the best result in battle was to defeat your enemy without raising a weapon.
Sometimes that meant diplomacy, sometimes he used scare tactics, and other times he simply outwitted his opponent.
Just because she was bigger and could defeat them with her teeth or claws didn’t mean she had to.