Carlos Castaneda - The Teachings of Don Juan (1968)

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Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use.

Carlos Castaneda
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

Carlos Castaneda
For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length—and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.

Carlos Castaneda
Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

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

Carlos Castaneda
Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.

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

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

Carlos Castaneda
A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you... Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.

Carlos Castaneda
My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.

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

Carlos Castaneda
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.

Carlos Castaneda