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Man has a dark side, yes, and it is called stupidity.
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 never worries about his fear.
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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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Hunting power is a very strange affair. There is no way to plan it ahead of time. That's what's exciting about it. A warrior proceeds as if he had a plan though, because he trusts his personal power. He knows for a fact that it will make him act in th emost appropriate fashion.
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We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.
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The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue
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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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Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around.
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Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.
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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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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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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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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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It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.
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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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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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Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
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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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A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.
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The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit
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