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• It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Expectations, Stupidity, Conform

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Power of Silence”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Challenges, Juan

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

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• For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Wall, Loneliness, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

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  Men, World, Life Is

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• If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it-purge it, make it perfect-because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile...To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

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  Life, Courage, Warrior

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• A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Attitude, Responsibility, Warrior

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• ... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Believe, Warrior, Faces

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the day. Around six in the morning the shadows wake up, and they are best around five in the afternoon. Then they are fully awake.

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  Morning, Shadow, Wake Up

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Second Ring of Power”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• That's your doing. Now in order to affect that doing I am going to recommend that you learn another doing... It may hook you to another doing and then you may realize that both doings are lies, unreal, and that to hinge yourself to either one is a waste of time, because the only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. To arrive at that being is the note-doing of the self

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  Real, Lying, Self

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• ...one should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Should, Turns, Left

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!

  Carlos Castaneda

  Fate, Fortune, Prisoner

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Numbers, Worry, Firsts

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.

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  Life, Spiritual, Warrior

  "Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan".

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• Things are only real after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot possibly be real to you, because no one could agree with you about it. 'Do you mean that you didn't see what happened?'. Of course I did. But I don't count. I am the one who's lying to you, remember?

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  Real, Lying, Mean

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• Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Self, Juan

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• It is important to have a perspective then only through seeing the world is it possible to transcend ideas such as the Flyers, and other aberrant thought forms. With ruthlessness, cunning patience and sweetness, it can be cracked.

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  Ideas, Perspective, Important

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• For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

  Carlos Castaneda

  Teacher, Tales, Certain

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing me.

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  Hands, Forever, Slavery

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• A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Knowledge, Men, Thinking

  "Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan". Book by Carlos Castaneda, p. 85, 1971.

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• My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.

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  Heart, Men, Sober

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.36, Univ of California Press

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• I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Reality, Ordinary, Shallow

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.127, Univ of California Press

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• The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.

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  Dying, Burning, Done

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it

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  Rocks, Giving, Attention

  Carlos Castaneda (1974). “Tales of Power”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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