Carlos Castaneda Quotes

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• Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Heart, Winning, Path

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• Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the feeling of knowing into reverent astonishment; of considering things that exceed the scope of our habits, and daring to face the only war that is worthwhile: The battle for awareness.

  Carlos Castaneda

  War, Knowing, Discipline

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• You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

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  Way, Like You

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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• We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Being Thankful, Needs

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• Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Self, Investing, Juan

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• In the Art of Dreaming Don Juan tells Carlos, "... most of our energy goes into upholding our importance... if we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us. One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and two we would provide ourselves with enough energy to ... catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe."

  Carlos Castaneda

  Dream, Art, Ideas

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• The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

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  Courage, Humble, Eye

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Strong, Heart, Journey

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• 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

  Regret, Decision, Doubt

  CARLOS CASTANEDA (1972). “Journey to Ixtlan”

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• The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Balance, Alive, Wonder

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• The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

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  Positive, Attitude, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Perspective, Looks

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• "Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one relieve one's sadness," don Juan said. "Warriors are always joyful because their love is unalterable and their beloved, the earth, embraces them and bestows upon them inconceivable gifts. The sadness belongs only to those who hate the very thing that gives shelter to their beings." Don Juan again caressed the ground with tenderness. "This lovely being, which is alive to its last recesses and understands every feeling, soothed me, it cured me of my pains, and finally when I had fully understood my love for it, it taught me freedom."

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  Pain, Hate, Passion

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• The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Dog, Tired, Ego

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• As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Men, Long, Appreciate

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• One day I found out that personal history was no longer necessary for me and, like drinking, I dropped it... Little by little you must create a fog around yourself; you must erase everything around you until nothing can be taken for granted, until nothing is any longer for sure, or real. Your problem now is that you're too real. Your endeavors are too real, your moods are too real. Don't take things so for granted. You must begin to erase yourself.

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  Real, Drinking, Taken

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• To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.

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  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

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  Friendship, Warrior, Honor

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Second Ring of Power”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

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  Positive, Wise, Spiritual

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• I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Life, People, Important

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.49, Univ of California Press

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• 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 for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

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  Life, Responsibility, Desert

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

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  Attitude, Eye, Responsibility

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

  Carlos Castaneda

  Life, Order, Dies

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• A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

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  Inspirational, Warrior, Thinking

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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