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The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!
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 takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.
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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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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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Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
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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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Your problems is that you think you have time.
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Things are only real after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot possibly be real to you, because no one could agree with you about it. 'Do you mean that you didn't see what happened?'. Of course I did. But I don't count. I am the one who's lying to you, remember?
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Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.
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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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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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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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Burn your bridges every 2 years.
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For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.
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Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan
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When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.
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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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It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.
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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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