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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

Carlos Castaneda

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Carlos Castaneda
Age: 72 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 25
Died: 1998
Died: April 27
Anthropologist
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Carlos Castaneda
Make
Seek
Blind
Tired
Alone
Marvels
Looking
Juan
Else
Fatigue
Around
Deaf
Everything
Mindfulness

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Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge.
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A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn't know where his death is going to find him.
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... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.
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... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them
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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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...one should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual.
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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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Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.
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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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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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It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people
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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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Intent is a force that exists in the universe. When sorcerers (those who live of the source) beckon to intent, it comes to them and sets up the path for attainment, which means that sorcerers always accomplish what they set out to do.
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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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Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all
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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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If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
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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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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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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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