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I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.
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The daily world exists because we know how to hold its images; consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the world collapses
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Men have to be hooked. Women don't need that. Women go freely into anything. That's their power and at the same time their drawback. Men have to be led and women have to be contained
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The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.
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Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self.
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As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.
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A hunter that is worth his salt does not catch game because he sets his traps, or because he knows the hunting routines of his prey, but because he himself has no routines. This is his advantage. He is not at all like the animals he is after, fixed by heavy routines and predictable quirks; he is free, fluid, unpredictable
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This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it
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The fact of the matter is that many children see.... Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.
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To tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control
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When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.
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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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There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how can we keep the bonds of our humanness and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity?
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The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit
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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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Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world.
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A warrior, on the other hand, is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. But once his calculations are over he acts. He lets go. That's abandon.
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It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.
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To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.
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There is no way to escape the doing of our world, so what a warrior does is to turn his world into his hunting ground. As a hunter, a warrior knows that the world is made to be used. So he uses every bit of it. A warrior is like a pirate that has no qualms in taking and using anything he wants, except that a warrior doesn't mind or he doesn't feel insulted when he is used and taken himself
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What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.
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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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I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.
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The spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.
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Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
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Carlos Castaneda
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Born:
December 25, 1925
Died:
April 27, 1998
(aged 72)
Bio:
Carlos Castaneda was an American author with a Ph.D. in anthropology.
Known for:
The Teachings of Don Juan (1968)
Journey to Ixtlan (1972)
A Separate Reality (1971)
Tales of Power (1974)
The Art of Dreaming (1993)
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