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• A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Courage, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (1974). “Tales of Power”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to himself. Perhaps you are chasing rainbows. You're after the self-confidence of the average man, when you should be after the humbleness of a warrior. The difference between the two is remarkable. Self Confidence entails knowing something for sure; humbleness entails being impeccable in one's actions and feelings.

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  Self Confidence, Warrior, Men

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

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• A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for a warrior is being alive. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. Therefore, one may say without being presumptuous that the experience of experiences is being alive.

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  Life, Appreciation, Warrior

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• Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Attitude, Knowledge, Responsibility

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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

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  House, Stressed, Chaos

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• 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 will enable him to handle some of the energy fields which are ordinarily inaccessible to him. Shamanism is a state of awareness, the ability to use energy fields that are not employed in perceiving the everyday-life world that we know.

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  Warrior, Everyday, Energy

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

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  People, Historical, Personal History

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “Journey to Ixtlan: the Lessons of Don Juan”, [Vancouver, B.C.] : Vancouver Taped Books Project

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• The reason you keep on coming back to see me is very simple; every time you have seen me your body has learned certain things, even against your desire. And finally your body now needs to come back to me to learn more. Let's say that your body knows that it is going to die, even though you never think about it. So I've been telling your body that I too am going to die and before I do I would like to show our body certain things, things which you cannot give to your body yourself... So let's say then that your body returns to me because I am its friend

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  Simple, Thinking, Giving

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• Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything.

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  Death, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one is simply a pawn on the chessboard. What decides everything is a conscious impersonal energy that sorcerers call intent or the Spirit.

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  Player, Energy, Chess

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• Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

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  Journey, Innovation, Intuition

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• A warrior knows that he is only a man. His only regret is that his life is so short that he can't grab onto all the things he would like to. But for him, this is not an issue; it's only a pity.

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  Spiritual, Regret, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• ...that was the way human beings are; they love to be told what to do, but they love even more to fight and not do what they are told, and thus they get entangled in hating the one who told them in the first place.

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  Hate, Fighting, Way

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Second Ring of Power”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

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  Tired, Mindfulness, Deaf And Blind

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• The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.

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  Time, Attitude, Fall

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self.

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  Dream, Self, Realizing

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.

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  Spiritual, Courage, Warrior

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• Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

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  Knowing, Useless, Kind

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes his way, free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That's the warrior's way.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Warrior

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• There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how can we keep the bonds of our humanness and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity?

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Cozy

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

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  Death, Warrior, Thinking

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• I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

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  Freedom, Fate, Past

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Eagle's Gift”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.

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  Yield, World, Steps

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• 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 forever left behind; that knowledge is indeed a frightening affair; that the means of the ordinary world are no longer a buffer for him; and that he must adopt a new way of life if he is going to survive. The first thing he ought to do, at that point, is to want to become a warrior.

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  Mean, Warrior, Men

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

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