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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Carlos Castaneda

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Carlos Castaneda
Age: 72 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 25
Died: 1998
Died: April 27
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Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.
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Seeing energy as it flows is an imperious need on the path of knowledge. Ultimately, all the effort of sorcerers is guided to that end. It is not enough for a warrior to know that the universe is energy he has to verify it for himself.
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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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It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.
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You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small
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One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for
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When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
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For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.
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You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.
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In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.
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The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
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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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There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how can we keep the bonds of our humanness and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity?
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Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
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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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If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it-purge it, make it perfect-because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile...To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.
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Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
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The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness.
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... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them
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