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• The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of true abandon, acts of largesse, of humor. As a gesture to the spirit, warriors bring out the best of themselves and silently offer it to the abstract.

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  Mean, Warrior, Movement

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• Don Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most intense fashion, and that it was absurd. I had now realized I could work just the same in making myself complete and strong. "The trick is in what one emphasizes," he said. "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

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  Fashion, Strong, Order

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• To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.

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  Stars, Light, Flames

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• A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.

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  Art, Thinking, Trying

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• A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

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  Wisdom, Attitude, Mean

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: 'Does this path have a heart?'

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  Fear, Heart, Ambition

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Fear, Self, Levels

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

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  Men, Rehabilitation, Succeed

  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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• Intent is a force that exists in the universe. When sorcerers (those who live of the source) beckon to intent, it comes to them and sets up the path for attainment, which means that sorcerers always accomplish what they set out to do.

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  Mean, Path, Source

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• Tonight in your dreams you must look at your hands.

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  Dream, Hands, Looks

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• ...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

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  Tunes, Spirit

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.

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  Warrior, Ordinary

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• 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 him cease to see the marvels all around.

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  Men, Self, Dwelling

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• 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 doesn't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Mean

  "The Wheel of Time: The Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts about Life, Death and the Universe". Book by Carlos Castaneda, November 24, 2009.

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• 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 us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment

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  Warrior, Words Of Wisdom, Enlightenment

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.

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  Change, Spiritual, Courage

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.

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  Inspirational, Perception, Vision

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

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  Change, Spiritual, Heart

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.76, Univ of California Press

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• Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.

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  Life, Art, Pain

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• 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 blind to it.

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  Reality, Deaf And Blind, World

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• Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.

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  Mind, Path, Don Juan

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• To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.

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  Worry, Exhausted, Desperation

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

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  Warrior, Men, Average

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.

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  Struggle, Warrior, Silence

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.

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  Heart, Degrees, Gestures

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