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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.

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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There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change what changed was his idea of himself.
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A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
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...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control
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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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When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.
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A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.
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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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Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world.
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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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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 a warrior has put an end to his routines, when he doesn't care anymore whether he has company or is alone, because he has heard the silent whisper of the spirit then you can say that, truly, he has died. From that point on, even the simplest things in life become extraordinary for him.
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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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Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.
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...one should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual.
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Self importance is man's greatest enemy.
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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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The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do.
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Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.
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Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge.
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Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.
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