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Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

Carlos Castaneda

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Carlos Castaneda
Age: 72 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 25
Died: 1998
Died: April 27
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Carlos Castaneda
Mystery
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Heightened
Awareness

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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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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Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
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... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change.
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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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Things don't change, only the way you look at them.
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Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.
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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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You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.
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Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.
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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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One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.
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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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The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the day. Around six in the morning the shadows wake up, and they are best around five in the afternoon. Then they are fully awake.
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Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one is simply a pawn on the chessboard. What decides everything is a conscious impersonal energy that sorcerers call intent or the Spirit.
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Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.
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