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For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

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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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Sorcerer
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Reality

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...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control
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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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Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge.
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If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it-purge it, make it perfect-because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile...To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.
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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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Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
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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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The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.
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Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.
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Your problems is that you think you have time.
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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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Self importance is man's greatest enemy.
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In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.
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Crows are not always available to give warning.
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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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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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Things don't change, only the way you look at them.
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