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Self importance is man's greatest enemy.
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 knows that he is only a man. His only regret is that his life is so short that he can't grab onto all the things he would like to. But for him, this is not an issue it's only a pity.
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And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.
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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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The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
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For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.
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Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all
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A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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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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Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.
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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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Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
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A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn't know where his death is going to find him.
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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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Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
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Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.
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The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes his way, free from worries or thoughts there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That's the warrior's way.
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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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The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.
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