Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge… — 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
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
Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power.… — 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
Whenever you are in the world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for irrational crap. But whenever… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to himself. Perhaps you are chasing rainbows.… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
My benefactor told me that my father and mother had lived and died just to have me, and that their own parents… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I too did not want to take the path of a warrior. I believed that all that work was for nothing, and… — 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
If a warrior needs solace he simply chooses anyone and expresses to that person every detail of his turmoil. After all, the… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything,… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
If a warrior wants to pay back for all the favors he has received, and he has no one in particular to… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Seeing energy as it flows is an imperious need on the path of knowledge. Ultimately, all the effort of sorcerers is guided… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, that's all. He likes whatever… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
A warrior chooses a path with heart, any path with heart, and follows it; and then he rejoices and laughs. He knows… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
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 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,… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is,… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting… — 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
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
Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share
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
One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share
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
When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share
Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share
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
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
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
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
You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share
A hunter that is worth his salt does not catch game because he sets his traps, or because he knows the hunting routines of… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share
If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share
