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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
Carlos Castaneda
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Carlos Castaneda
Age: 72 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 25
Died: 1998
Died: April 27
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Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
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The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.
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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.
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... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.
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A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it
Carlos Castaneda
It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us
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We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.
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Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge.
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Men have to be hooked. Women don't need that. Women go freely into anything. That's their power and at the same time their drawback. Men have to be led and women have to be contained
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.
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Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?
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A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.
Carlos Castaneda
The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.
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Crows are not always available to give warning.
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A warrior never worries about his fear.
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Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self.
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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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You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small
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For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.
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