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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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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.
Carlos Castaneda
A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.
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Burn your bridges every 2 years.
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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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Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?
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Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan
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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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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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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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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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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.
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The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.
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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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When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.
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Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.
Carlos Castaneda
To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.
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The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.
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