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• 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 about ourselves and our world, the world is always as it should be. We renew it, we rekindle it with life, we uphold it with our internal talk. Not only that, but we also choose our paths as we talk to ourselves. Thus we repeat the same choices over and over until the day we die, because we keep on repeating the same internal talk over and over until the day we die. A warrior is aware of this and strives to stop his internal talk.

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  Life, Attitude, Warrior

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

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  Life, Order, Dies

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• Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

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  Success, Spiritual, Wall

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 is to convince us that the descriptions we agree upon define the limits of the real world. What we call reality is only one way of seeing the world, a way that is supported by social consensus.

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  Real, Agree Upon, Agreement

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

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  Change, Understanding, Way

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Separate Reality”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

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  Attitude, Warrior, Reality

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Your problems is that you think you have time.

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  Procrastination, Thinking, Problem

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• The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

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  Stress, World, Way

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.

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  Learning, Health, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Men have to be hooked. Women don't need that. Women go freely into anything. That's their power and at the same time their drawback. Men have to be led and women have to be contained

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  Men, Needs, Drawbacks

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Second Ring of Power”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

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  Inspiration, Learning, Creativity

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• 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 in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power.

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  Mother, Running, Listening

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• Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

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  Men, Self, Enemy

  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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• 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 to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue

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  Inspirational, Attitude, Learning

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

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  Stress, Warrior, Effort

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry.

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  Attitude, Warrior, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Over You, Needs, Looks

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• 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 rapid, unique events. So you must trim your body to make it a good receptor. The body is an awareness; and it must be treated impeccably.

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  Eye, Unique, Events

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• It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us

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  Energy, Conquer, Idiocy

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Second Ring of Power”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 sheer mystery.

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  Motherhood, Secret, World

  Carlos Castaneda (1971). “A Separate Reality.Further Conversations with Don Juan”

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• For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.

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  Heart, Challenges, May

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.137, Univ of California Press

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• Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional. He is turned is back to the world of the foreboding and the exulting and has welcomed the world of boredom.

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  Men, Boredom, World

  Carlos Castaneda (1984). “Fire from Within”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.

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  Men, Energy, Inventory

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• A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything.

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  Death, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Fright never injures anyone. What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do

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  Spirit, Fright

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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