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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 man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.
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... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.
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Seeing energy as it flows is an imperious need on the path of knowledge. Ultimately, all the effort of sorcerers is guided to that end. It is not enough for a warrior to know that the universe is energy he has to verify it for himself.
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Man has a dark side, yes, and it is called stupidity.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.
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Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.
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A warrior never worries about his fear.
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Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
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...one should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual.
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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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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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Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked
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Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.
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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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The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.
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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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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!
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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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We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.
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