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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.
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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The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes his way, free from worries or thoughts there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That's the warrior's way.
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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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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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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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All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy - it does not make a warrior work at liking it it makes for a joyful journey as long as a man follows it, he is one with it.
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The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.
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If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it-purge it, make it perfect-because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile...To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.
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It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us
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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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One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for
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A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.
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... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them
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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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Self importance is man's greatest enemy.
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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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The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.
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The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit
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Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.
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Your problems is that you think you have time.
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Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
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