Carlos Castaneda Quotes - Page 6

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• A hunter that is worth his salt does not catch game because he sets his traps, or because he knows the hunting routines of his prey, but because he himself has no routines. This is his advantage. He is not at all like the animals he is after, fixed by heavy routines and predictable quirks; he is free, fluid, unpredictable

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  Animal, Hunting, Games

  CARLOS CASTANEDA (1972). “Journey to Ixtlan”

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• A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.

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  Hands, Understanding, Guardian

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• If a warrior needs solace he simply chooses anyone and expresses to that person every detail of his turmoil. After all, the warrior is not seeking to be understood or helped; by talking he's merely relieving himself of his pressure.

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  Warrior, Talking, Details

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• How can I know who I am when I am all this?

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  Who I Am, Knows

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Crows are not always available to give warning.

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  Giving, Crow, Warning

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.

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  Rabbits, Juan, Toes

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• "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. Our world is connected to yours by a door called dreams. We know how to go through that door, but men don't. They have to learn it."

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  Dream, Men, Our World

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• You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

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  Understanding, Affair, Reason

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• A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.

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  War, Men, Don Juan

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.32, Univ of California Press

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• The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.

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  Warrior, World, Hardest

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Second Ring of Power”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked

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  Bunch, Convinced

  Carlos Castaneda (1974). “Tales of Power”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

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  Life, Strong, Truthful

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.74, 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.

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  Responsibility, World, Mysterious

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

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• ... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.

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  Order, Wind, Needs

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• The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.

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  Freedom, Touching, Perception

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Power of Silence”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

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  Spiritual, Respect, Courage

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.

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  Regret, Warrior, Challenges

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

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  Mystery, Awareness, Reason

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• When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.

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  Respect, Courage, Regret

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• To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

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  Spiritual, Warrior, Perfection

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

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  Disappointment, Order, Play

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

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  Reality, World, Description

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• All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess, to pick it up.

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  Eye, Warrior, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• ... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them

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  Pain, Grief, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.

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  Spiritual, Warrior, Hypocrisy

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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