Carlos Castaneda Quotes
Top 97 wise famous quotes and sayings by Carlos Castaneda
Carlos Castaneda Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
Fright never injures anyone. What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do
A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.
You see all of us go through the same doubts. We are afraid of being mad; unfortunately for us, of course, all of us are already mad.
The spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.
When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.
My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head'
the only part that could fortify the heart of man.
the only part that could fortify the heart of man.
The fact of the matter is that many children see ... Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.
The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.
If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.
Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked
We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it
If one is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.
There's no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal.
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people
Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.
This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it
Nothing is pending in the world ... nothing is finished, yet nothing is unresolved ... Everything is filled to the brim.
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.
Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.
Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.
The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.
A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.
One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.
Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?
Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.
Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.
Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so ... because we learn what to perceive.
It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.
It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.
Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.