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A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.
Carlos Castaneda
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Carlos Castaneda
Age: 72 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 25
Died: 1998
Died: April 27
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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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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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Man has a dark side, yes, and it is called stupidity.
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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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One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for
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Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.
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A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.
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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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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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Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything.
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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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Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked
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If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.
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Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
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