Carlos Castaneda Short Quotes

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One should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual.

Carlos Castaneda
Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I. Don Juan Matus

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Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

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The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

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The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.

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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

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To tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

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You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

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I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.

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A warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them

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Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.

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The twilight is the crack between the worlds. It is the door to the unknown.

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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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The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do.

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What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

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Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.

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Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on

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Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.

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The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

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For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

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The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

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I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

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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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Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

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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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Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

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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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You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.

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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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