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World Quotes by Carlos Castaneda
- We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever we finish talking to ourselves…
- The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.
- A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in…
- The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and…
- For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himselfand others. He…
- One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely.…
- Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
- The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a…
- There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail…
- "Dreaming is the vehicle that brings dreamers to this world," the emissary said, "and everything sorcerers know about dreaming was taught to them by us.…
- The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and…
- It isn't that a warrior learns shamanism as time goes by; rather, what he learns as time goes by is to save energy. This energy…
- Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes…
- The difficulty is to learn to perceive with your whole body, not with just your eyes and reason. The world becomes a stream of tremendously…
- My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary life has been…
- For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility…
- We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.
- In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.
- For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility…
- To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its…
- The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk…
- The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.
- Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.
- Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of socialization…
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