Top 100 Carlos Castaneda Quotes
#1. I have chosen to parody the writing styles of Carlos Castaneda, James Redfield, Richard Bach, Lynn Andrews, and several other best-selling new age authors.
Frederick Lenz
#2. Milla Jovovich introduced me to [anthropologist and author of the Don Juan series of books involving shamanic peyote rituals] Carlos Castaneda because I was all into the hallucinogens for a minute.
Michelle Rodriguez
#3. We either make ourselves miserable," said the Brazilian sage Carlos Castaneda, "or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
Steve Chandler
#4. Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda's A Separate Peace: The difference between a warrior and an ordinary man is that a warrior sees everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse.
Michael E. Gerber
#5. There are two sides to a person's being - the superconscious and the conscious. These have reverberations in the popular works of Carlos Castaneda, in the don Juan terminology of the tonal and the nagual.
Frederick Lenz
#6. Ask yourself one question. It is the question that only a very old man asks: Does this path have a heart? One path makes for a joyful journey. The other path will make you curse your life. - Carlos Castaneda,
Jeff Nixa
#7. Victor Wooten is the Carlos Castaneda of music
Tony Levin
#8. Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will not do it of their own volition.
Frederick Lenz
#9. Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.
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#10. Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry.
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#11. Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't then it is of no use to us.
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#12. Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.
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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything.
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#18. As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.
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#20. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.
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#21. Our will operates in spite of our indulgence. For example, your will is already opening your gap, little by little." "What gap are you talking about?" "There is a gap in us; like the soft spot on the head of a child which closes with age, this gap opens as one develops one's will.
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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.
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#26. Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional. He is turned is back to the world of the foreboding and the exulting and has welcomed the world of boredom.
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#27. 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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#28. The difficulty is to learn to perceive with your whole body, not with just your eyes and reason. The world becomes a stream of tremendously rapid, unique events. So you must trim your body to make it a good receptor. The body is an awareness; and it must be treated impeccably.
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#29. One should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
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#35. One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.
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#36. The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.
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#37. Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. 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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#42. Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I.
Don Juan Matus
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#43. To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
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#44. You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.
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#45. A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.
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#46. 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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#48. When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.
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#49. I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.
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#51. 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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#52. It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us
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#53. Warriors are incapable of feeling compassion because they no longer feel sorry for themselves. Without the driving force of self-pity, compassion is meaningless.
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#54. I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.
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#55. 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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#56. Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to withstand the pressure of the unknowable.
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#57. 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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#58. If one is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
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#59. To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.
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#60. Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
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#61. 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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#62. To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.
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#63. 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.
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#64. Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all
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#65. We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.
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#66. 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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#67. Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.
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#68. 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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#69. You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.
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#70. It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.
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#71. The spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.
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#72. The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.
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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. 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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#80. 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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#81. Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
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#82. A man of knowledge has no honor, no dignity, no family, no name, no country, but only life to be lived, and under these circumstances his only tie to his fellow men is his controlled folly. Thus
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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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#86. It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.
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#87. The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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#88. 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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#89. Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on
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#90. 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.
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#91. One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for
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#93. The art of a warrior is to balance the terror of being a man with the wonder of being a man.
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#94. We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.
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#95. The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
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#96. When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.
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#97. The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do.
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#98. 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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#99. "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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#100. Nothing is pending in the world ... nothing is finished, yet nothing is unresolved ... Everything is filled to the brim.
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