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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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Carlos Castaneda
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Self importance is man's greatest enemy.
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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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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 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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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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When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.
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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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A warrior knows that he is only a man. His only regret is that his life is so short that he can't grab onto all the things he would like to. But for him, this is not an issue it's only a pity.
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The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of true abandon, acts of largesse, of humor. As a gesture to the spirit, warriors bring out the best of themselves and silently offer it to the abstract.
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Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.
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Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
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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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For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.
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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 shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the day. Around six in the morning the shadows wake up, and they are best around five in the afternoon. Then they are fully awake.
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The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
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Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.
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We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.
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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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