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Carlos Castaneda Inspirational Quotes (121)

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A warrior chooses a path with heart, any path with heart, and follows it and then he rejoices and laughs. He knows because he sees that his life will be over altogether too soon. He sees that nothing is more important than anything else.
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The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do.
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Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.
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You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small
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The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!
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Dreaming is the vehicle that brings dreamers to this world, the emissary said, and everything sorcerers know about dreaming was taught to them by us. Our world is connected to yours by a door called dreams. We know how to go through that door, but men don't. They have to learn it.
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We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.
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The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit
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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?
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When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.
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The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.
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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
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The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.
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Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
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Self importance is man's greatest enemy.
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I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change what changed was his idea of himself.
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My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.
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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.
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There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment
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Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.
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