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Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.
Carlos Castaneda
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Carlos Castaneda
Age: 72 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 25
Died: 1998
Died: April 27
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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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Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.
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In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.
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A warrior never worries about his fear.
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... the daily world exists because we know how to hold its images consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the world collapses
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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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The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
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Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around.
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We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.
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One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.
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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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The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.
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Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.
Carlos Castaneda
When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.
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Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.
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Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
Carlos Castaneda
It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.
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For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.
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When a warrior has put an end to his routines, when he doesn't care anymore whether he has company or is alone, because he has heard the silent whisper of the spirit then you can say that, truly, he has died. From that point on, even the simplest things in life become extraordinary for him.
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