Carlos Castaneda: Trending quotes (page 2)

“For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.”

“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.”

“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.”

“For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himself and others. He doesn’t use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.”

“The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.”

“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”

“Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.”

“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.”

“The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.”

“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”

“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.”

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

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

“The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.”

“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.”

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

“Wait before revealing a finding. Wait for the most appropriate time to let go of something that you hold.”

“The world is unfathomable. And so are we, and so is every being that exists in this world.”

“To change our idea of the world is the crux of shamanism. And stopping the internal dialogue is the only way to accomplish it.”