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Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all
Carlos Castaneda
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Carlos Castaneda
Age: 72 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 25
Died: 1998
Died: April 27
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Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
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...one should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual.
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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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It is important to have a perspective then only through seeing the world is it possible to transcend ideas such as the Flyers, and other aberrant thought forms. With ruthlessness, cunning patience and sweetness, it can be cracked.
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Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.
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Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.
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Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one is simply a pawn on the chessboard. What decides everything is a conscious impersonal energy that sorcerers call intent or the Spirit.
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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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A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it
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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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We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.
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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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... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them
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Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
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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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