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• The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.

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  Powerful, Fighting, Order

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

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  Warrior, Men, Average

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Dream, Acceptance, Wind

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Men, Self, Dwelling

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Warrior

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• To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.

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  Stars, Light, Flames

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• We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.

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  Warrior, Ordinary

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• It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

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  People, Historical, Personal History

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “Journey to Ixtlan: the Lessons of Don Juan”, [Vancouver, B.C.] : Vancouver Taped Books Project

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• Don Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most intense fashion, and that it was absurd. I had now realized I could work just the same in making myself complete and strong. "The trick is in what one emphasizes," he said. "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

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  Fashion, Strong, Order

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• The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing. The spirit of a warrior is geared only to struggle, and every struggle is a warrior's last battle on earth. Thus the outcome matters very little to him. In his last battle on earth a warrior lets his spirit flow free and clear. And as he wages his battle, knowing that his intent is impeccable, a warrior laughs and laughs.

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  Spiritual, Struggle, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Separate Reality”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment

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  Warrior, Words Of Wisdom, Enlightenment

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds.

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  Time, Believe, Arrogance

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

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  Fear, Self, Levels

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• You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.

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  Journey, Needs, Helping

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.

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  Life, Art, Pain

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• Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.

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  Mind, Path, Don Juan

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• It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

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  Motivational, Reality, Juan

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Change, Spiritual, Heart

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.76, Univ of California Press

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• Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.

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  Inspirational, Perception, Vision

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.

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  Struggle, Warrior, Silence

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.

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  Reality, Deaf And Blind, World

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• 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.

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  Change, Spiritual, Courage

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of true abandon, acts of largesse, of humor. As a gesture to the spirit, warriors bring out the best of themselves and silently offer it to the abstract.

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  Mean, Warrior, Movement

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• If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

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  House, Stressed, Chaos

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• Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

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  Inspirational, Life, Courage

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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