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Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge.
Carlos Castaneda
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Carlos Castaneda
Age: 72 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 25
Died: 1998
Died: April 27
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A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything.
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
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The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.
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Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.
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Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
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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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Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
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The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
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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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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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One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely. The only thing we can do is arrive at a state of increased awareness that allows us to perceive the world around us in a more inclusive manner.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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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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Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.
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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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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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In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.
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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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