It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...
I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...
... to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...
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. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...
For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge for me is to traverse its full length. And there I travel - looking, looking, breathlessly. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...
The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...
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. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...
There's no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...
Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...
Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...
The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...
To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...
Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way. - Carlos Castaneda. View more images...