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Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
Carlos Castaneda
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Carlos Castaneda
Age: 72 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 25
Died: 1998
Died: April 27
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One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for
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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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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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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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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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Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
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If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
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Fright never injures anyone. What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do
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We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.
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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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Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?
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Crows are not always available to give warning.
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Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
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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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It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.
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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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...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control
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Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.
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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 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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