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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
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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One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.
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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 things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
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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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Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
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There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment
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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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... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change.
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For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.
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Dreaming is the vehicle that brings dreamers to this world, the emissary said, and everything sorcerers know about dreaming was taught to them by us. Our world is connected to yours by a door called dreams. We know how to go through that door, but men don't. They have to learn it.
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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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Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?
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... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them
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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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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small
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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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Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls they don't demolish them.
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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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The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do.
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