Top 100 Carlos Castaneda Quotes

#1. Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.

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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. 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.

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

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#6. When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

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#7. Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.

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#8. I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

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#9. Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.

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#10. The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.

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#11. The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

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#12. Your problems is that you think you have time

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#13. 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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#14. An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, that's all. He likes whatever or whomever he wants, for the hell of it.

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#15. Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I.
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#16. You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.

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#17. 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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#18. A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.

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

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

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#21. To die with elation is a crappy way of dying ... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it.

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#22. I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.

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#23. You see all of us go through the same doubts. We are afraid of being mad; unfortunately for us, of course, all of us are already mad.

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#24. Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

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

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#26. The average man is either victorious or defeated and, depending on that, he becomes a persecutor or a victim. These two conditions are prevalent as long as one does not see. Seeing dispels the illusion of victory, or defeat, or suffering.

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

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#28. We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

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

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#31. 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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#32. You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

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#33. 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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#34. A warrior must focus his attention on the link between himself and his death ... He must let each of his acts be his last battle on earth. Only under those conditions will his acts have their rightful power.

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#35. The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

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#36. You have little time left, and none of it for crap. A fine state. I would say that the best of us always comes out when we are against the wall, when we feel the sword dangling overhead. Personally, I wouldn't have it any other way.

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#37. To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.

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#38. 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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#39. Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

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#40. A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

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#41. All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

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#42. It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

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#43. The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

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#44. For instance, we need to look with our eyes to laugh," he said, "because only when we look at things can we catch the funny edge of the world. On the other hand, when our eyes see, everything is so equal that nothing is funny.

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#45. Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on

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#46. One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

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#47. Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

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

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

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#50. 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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#51. "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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#52. To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

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#53. If a warrior wants to pay back for all the favors he has received, and he has no one in particular to address his payment to, he can address it to the spirit of man, That's always a very small account, and whatever one puts in it is more than enough.

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#54. 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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#55. We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.

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#56. The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.

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#57. We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

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#58. Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

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#59. 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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#60. In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.

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#61. Every warrior on the path of knowledge thinks, at one time or another, that he's learning sorcery, but all he's doing is allowing himself to be convinced of the power hidden in his being, and that he can reach it.

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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. The fact of the matter is that many children see ... Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.

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#66. Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it

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#67. 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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#68. Seeing energy as it flows is an imperious need on the path of knowledge. Ultimately, all the effort of sorcerers is guided to that end. It is not enough for a warrior to know that the universe is energy; he has to verify it for himself.

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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

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#72. 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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#73. perceiving the world" entails a process of apprehending whatever presents itself to us. This particular "perceiving" is done with our senses and with our will.

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

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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so,believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.

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#78. Upon learning to see a man becomes everything by becoming nothing. He,

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#79. For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. To tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

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#83. The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

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#84. Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.

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#85. 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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#86. Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

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

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#89. 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.

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#90. 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.

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#91. A warrior never worries about his fear.

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#92. Hunting power is a very strange affair. There is no way to plan it ahead of time. That's what's exciting about it. A warrior proceeds as if he had a plan though, because he trusts his personal power. He knows for a fact that it will make him act in th emost appropriate fashion.

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#93. The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.

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#94. Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

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#95. 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.

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

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

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

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#100. When a warrior has put an end to his routines, when he doesn't care anymore whether he has company or is alone, because he has heard the silent whisper of the spirit; then you can say that, truly, he has died. From that point on, even the simplest things in life become extraordinary for him.

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