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… — 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… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is… — 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
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
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
For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one… — 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 daily world exists because we know how to hold its images; consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain… — 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
The difficulty is to learn to perceive with your whole body, not with just your eyes and reason. The world becomes a… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
"Dreaming is the vehicle that brings dreamers to this world," the emissary said, "and everything sorcerers know about dreaming was taught to… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled… — 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
It is important to have a perspective then only through seeing the world is it possible to transcend ideas such as the… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded… — 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
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
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
