“The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.”
“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.”
Source: Journey to Ixtlan
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Carlos Castaneda 98
Peruvian-American author 1925–1998Related quotes
“Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers.”
Variant: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Source: Gravity's Rainbow
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.”