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Carlos Castaneda

Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925[nb 1]–April 27, 1998) was an American author with a Ph.D. in anthropology.

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Crows are not always available to give warning.

Giving, Crow, Warning, Crows, Available

. . . 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

Attention, Collapse, Daily, Hold, Maintain, World

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness.

Acceptance, Dream, Reach, See, Vastness, Wind

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.

Giving, Like, Magic, Science, Sorcery, Verify

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

Description, Know, Reality, World

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

Tired, Mindfulness, Deaf And Blind, Fatigue, Seek, Juan

I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

Detached, Eagle, Fate, Free, Freedom, Past

Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to withstand the pressure of the unknowable.

Challenge, People, Power, Sobriety, Unknowable, Warrior

A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.

Hands, Understanding, Guardian, Despotic, Guard

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.

Absolute, Assurance, Awake, Don Juan, Men, War

Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world.

Everyone, Make, Order, Use, World

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

Fear, Levels, Nothing, Self

Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.

Attitude, Succeed, Defeated, Make

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.

Average, Concerned, Inspirational, People, Spiritual, Warrior

Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.

Collapses, Internal, Kept, Our Words, Surface, World

The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do.

Secret

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

Alive, Balance, Terror, Wonder

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

Attitude, Clumsy, Reality, Vain, Warrior

The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.

Attitude, Fall, Knees, Scrape, Time, Warrior

Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one is simply a pawn on the chessboard. What decides everything is a conscious impersonal energy that sorcerers call intent or the Spirit.

Chess, Energy, Intent, Mediator, Player

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