Carlos Castaneda

Tonight in your dreams you must look at your hands.

— Carlos Castaneda

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

— Carlos Castaneda

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

— Carlos Castaneda

Crows are not always available to give warning.

— Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

— Carlos Castaneda

Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

— Carlos Castaneda

How can I know who I am when I am all this?

— Carlos Castaneda

If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

— Carlos Castaneda

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

— Carlos Castaneda

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

— Carlos Castaneda

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

— Carlos Castaneda

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

— Carlos Castaneda

I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.

— Carlos Castaneda

When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.

— Carlos Castaneda

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

— Carlos Castaneda

Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.

— Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you…

— Carlos Castaneda

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

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

Seeing energy as it flows is an imperious need on the path of knowledge. Ultimately, all the effort of sorcerers is guided…

— Carlos Castaneda

The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary…

— Carlos Castaneda

“Moć počiva na vrsti znanja koje čovek poseduje. Kakvog ima smisla znati ono što je beskorisno? To nas neće pripremiti za neizbežan…

— Carlos Castaneda

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

Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Carlos Castaneda

“Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is…

— Carlos Castaneda

To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve;…

— 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

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

“We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings…

— Carlos Castaneda

We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever we finish…

— Carlos Castaneda

“I have no routines or personal history. One day I found out that they were no longer necessary for me and, like…

— Carlos Castaneda

We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.

— Carlos Castaneda

A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.

— Carlos Castaneda

“When man fell to his knees he became the asshole he is today.”

— Carlos Castañeda

Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I. Don Juan Matus

— Carlos Castaneda