Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless? — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no way to escape the doing of our world, so what a warrior does is to turn his world into… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing. The spirit… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one relieve one's sadness," don Juan said. "Warriors are always joyful because… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Don Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever we finish… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
There's no way to put a limit on what one may accomplish individually if the intent is an impeccable intent. Don Juan's… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
A warrior, on the other hand, is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. But once his calculations are over he acts.… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does.… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom.… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
In the Art of Dreaming Don Juan tells Carlos, "... most of our energy goes into upholding our importance... if we were… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
You see all of us go through the same doubts. We are afraid of being mad; unfortunately for us, of course, all of us… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Fright is something one can never get over. When a warrior is caught in such a tight spot he would simply turn his back… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
