Carlos Castaneda Quotes
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.
It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.
My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.
Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?
To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
... the daily world exists because we know how to hold its images; consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the world collapses
Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.
For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.
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.
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.
One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.
Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it
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!
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.
... 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.
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.
This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it
Any path is only a path and there is no affront to oneself or to others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.
We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.