Warrior Quotes by Carlos Castaneda

Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge.

— Carlos Castaneda

A warrior never worries about his fear.

— Carlos Castaneda

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

— Carlos Castaneda

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

— Carlos Castaneda

A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.

— Carlos Castaneda

We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.

— Carlos Castaneda

Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

— Carlos Castaneda

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

— Carlos Castaneda

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

— Carlos Castaneda

The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.

— Carlos Castaneda

...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

— Carlos Castaneda

If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.

— Carlos Castaneda

There's no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and…

— Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.

— Carlos Castaneda

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

— Carlos Castaneda

A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil…

— Carlos Castaneda

A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is,…

— Carlos Castaneda

A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge,…

— Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior has put an end to his routines, when he doesn't care anymore whether he has company or is alone,…

— Carlos Castaneda

A warrior knows that he is only a man. His only regret is that his life is so short that he can't…

— Carlos Castaneda

For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting…

— Carlos Castaneda

Hunting power is a very strange affair. There is no way to plan it ahead of time. That's what's exciting about it.…

— Carlos Castaneda

And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of…

— Carlos Castaneda

A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for…

— Carlos Castaneda

A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon.…

— Carlos Castaneda

It isn't that a warrior learns shamanism as time goes by; rather, what he learns as time goes by is to save…

— Carlos Castaneda

I too did not want to take the path of a warrior. I believed that all that work was for nothing, and…

— Carlos Castaneda

My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary…

— Carlos Castaneda

There is no way to escape the doing of our world, so what a warrior does is to turn his world into…

— Carlos Castaneda

The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing. The spirit…

— Carlos Castaneda

The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at…

— Carlos Castaneda

“To be a warrior a man has to be, first of all, and rightfully so, keenly aware of his own death. But…

— Carlos Castaneda

To die with elation is a crappy way of dying... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take…

— Carlos Castaneda

To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

— Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

— Carlos Castaneda

Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being…

— Carlos Castaneda

Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't…

— Carlos Castaneda

A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.

— Carlos Castaneda

“The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.”

— Carlos Castaneda

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no…

— Carlos Castaneda