Carlos Castaneda

The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

— Carlos Castaneda

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

— Carlos Castaneda

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

— Carlos Castaneda

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

— 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

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

— 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

Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if…

— 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

There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves…

— Carlos Castaneda

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us…

— Carlos Castaneda

The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early…

— Carlos Castaneda

Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes…

— Carlos Castaneda

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity…

— Carlos Castaneda

A warrior chooses a path with heart, any path with heart, and follows it; and then he rejoices and laughs. He knows…

— Carlos Castaneda

My benefactor told me that my father and mother had lived and died just to have me, and that their own parents…

— Carlos Castaneda

What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so…

— Carlos Castaneda

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy.…

— Carlos Castaneda

A hunter that is worth his salt does not catch game because he sets his traps, or because he knows the hunting…

— Carlos Castaneda

Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring…

— Carlos Castaneda

Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts…

— Carlos Castaneda

The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of…

— Carlos Castaneda

Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing…

— Carlos Castaneda

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

— Carlos Castaneda

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

— Carlos Castaneda

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

— Carlos Castaneda

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

— Carlos Castaneda

We don't need MORE to be Thankful for, we just need to be MORE Thankful.

— Carlos Castaneda

It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us

— Carlos Castaneda

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

— Carlos Castaneda

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world…

— Carlos Castaneda

Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

— Carlos Castaneda

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

— Carlos Castaneda

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

— Carlos Castaneda

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

— Carlos Castaneda

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

— Carlos Castaneda

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

— Carlos Castaneda

Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.

— Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

— Carlos Castaneda