The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes his way, free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That's the warrior's way. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...

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. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...

One must have something to die for in order to have something to live for. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...

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. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...

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. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...

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. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...

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. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...

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. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy - it does not make a warrior work at liking it; it makes for a joyful journey; as long as a man follows it, he is one with it. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...

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. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...

Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...

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. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...