Quotes by Carlos Castañeda

“To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes ...”

“A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.”

“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.”

“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”

“A 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 . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times ...”

“All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doe...”

“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”

“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”

“In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.”

“Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your d...”

“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, fo...”

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

“It isn't that as time goes by you're learning sorcery; rather, what you're learning is to save energy. And this energy will enable you to handle some of the energy fields that are not employed in p...”

“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”

“The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.”

“Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.”

“Nothing is pending in the world…nothing is finished, yet nothing is unresolved…Everything is filled to the brim.”

“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”

“Every warrior on the path of knowledge thinks, at one time or another, that he's learning sorcery, but all he's doing is allowing himself to be convinced of the power hidden in his being, and that ...”