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You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that 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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A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.
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The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.
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Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.
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The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.
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A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.
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It is important to have a perspective then only through seeing the world is it possible to transcend ideas such as the Flyers, and other aberrant thought forms. With ruthlessness, cunning patience and sweetness, it can be cracked.
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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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... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.
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Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
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The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness.
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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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Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.
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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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Intent is a force that exists in the universe. When sorcerers (those who live of the source) beckon to intent, it comes to them and sets up the path for attainment, which means that sorcerers always accomplish what they set out to do.
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One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for
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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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We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.
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It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us
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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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