Carlos Castaneda Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• In the Art of Dreaming Don Juan tells Carlos, "... most of our energy goes into upholding our importance... if we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us. One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and two we would provide ourselves with enough energy to ... catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe."

  Carlos Castaneda

  Dream, Art, Ideas

• The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Men, Energy, Inventory

• It isn't that a warrior learns shamanism as time goes by; rather, what he learns as time goes by is to save energy. This energy will enable him to handle some of the energy fields which are ordinarily inaccessible to him. Shamanism is a state of awareness, the ability to use energy fields that are not employed in perceiving the everyday-life world that we know.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Everyday, Energy

• It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us

  Carlos Castaneda

  Energy, Conquer, Idiocy

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Second Ring of Power”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Player, Energy, Chess

• Seeing energy as it flows is an imperious need on the path of knowledge. Ultimately, all the effort of sorcerers is guided to that end. It is not enough for a warrior to know that the universe is energy; he has to verify it for himself.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Effort, Energy

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