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Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.
— Idries Shah
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.
— Carlos Castaneda
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
— Carlos Castaneda
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
— Carlos Castaneda
We're a feeling, an awareness encased here
— Carlos Castaneda
We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.
— Carlos Castaneda
Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
— Carlos Castaneda
A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.
— Carlos Castaneda
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.
— Carlos Castaneda
Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
— Carlos Castaneda
The spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.
— Carlos Castaneda
When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.
— Carlos Castaneda
A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.
— Carlos Castaneda
To tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control
— Carlos Castaneda
My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' the only part that could fortify the heart of man. — Carlos Castaneda
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.
— Carlos Castaneda
Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.
— Carlos Castaneda
A warrior never worries about his fear.
— Carlos Castaneda
Man has a dark side, yes, and it is called stupidity.
— Carlos Castaneda
For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.
— Carlos Castaneda
I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.
— Carlos Castaneda
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.
— Carlos Castaneda
Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge.
— Carlos Castaneda
Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.
— Carlos Castaneda
If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.
— Carlos Castaneda
Tonight in your dreams you must look at your hands.
— Carlos Castaneda
The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
— Carlos Castaneda
Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on
— Carlos Castaneda
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.
— Carlos Castaneda
In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.
— Carlos Castaneda
The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.
— Carlos Castaneda
Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
— Carlos Castaneda
If one is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
— Carlos Castaneda
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.
— Carlos Castaneda
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
— Carlos Castaneda
We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.
— Carlos Castaneda
One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for
— Carlos Castaneda
Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it
— Carlos Castaneda
We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
— Carlos Castaneda
Your problems is that you think you have time
— Carlos Castaneda
When fate and love come into conflict, the former must always win; for love will fade if it rests upon indignity or abdication.
— Jorge G. Castaneda
The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
— Carlos Castaneda
Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.
— Carlos Castaneda
It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people
— Carlos Castaneda
Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.
— Carlos Castaneda
Nothing is pending in the world ... nothing is finished, yet nothing is unresolved ... Everything is filled to the brim.
— Carlos Castaneda
Self importance is man's greatest enemy.
— Carlos Castaneda
We either make ourselves miserable," said the Brazilian sage Carlos Castaneda, "or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
— Steve Chandler
Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.
— Carlos Castaneda
Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.
— Carlos Castaneda
Victor Wooten is the Carlos Castaneda of music
— Tony Levin
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
— Carlos Castaneda
The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.
— Carlos Castaneda
Crows are not always available to give warning.
— Carlos Castaneda
Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I.Don Juan Matus
— Carlos Castaneda
You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.
— Carlos Castaneda
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.
— Carlos Castaneda
You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.
— Carlos Castaneda
For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power
— Carlos Castaneda
Things don't change, only the way you look at them.
— Carlos Castaneda
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?
— Carlos Castaneda
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
— Carlos Castaneda
We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.
— Carlos Castaneda
The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.
— Carlos Castaneda
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
— Carlos Castaneda
As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.
— Carlos Castaneda
One should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual.
— Carlos Castaneda
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
— Carlos Castaneda
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.
— Carlos Castaneda
The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.
— Carlos Castaneda
A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.
— Carlos Castaneda
Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.
— Carlos Castaneda
One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.
— Carlos Castaneda
Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?
— Carlos Castaneda
The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit
— Carlos Castaneda
It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.
— Carlos Castaneda
You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small
— Carlos Castaneda
Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.
— Carlos Castaneda
It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us
— Carlos Castaneda
We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.
— Carlos Castaneda
This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it
— Carlos Castaneda
Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.
— Carlos Castaneda
It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.
— Carlos Castaneda
When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.
— Carlos Castaneda
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.
— Carlos Castaneda
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
— Carlos Castaneda
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.
— Carlos Castaneda
Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
— Carlos Castaneda
Burn your bridges every 2 years.
— Carlos Castaneda
Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all
— Carlos Castaneda
Upon learning to see a man becomes everything by becoming nothing. He,
— Carlos Castaneda
To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.
— Carlos Castaneda
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.
— Carlos Castaneda
A warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them
— Carlos Castaneda
