Don Juan Quotes - Page 2

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

  Carlos Castaneda

  Attitude, Warrior, Reality

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 power to do that.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Simple, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Challenges, Juan

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

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

  Carlos Castaneda

  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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• A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for a warrior is being alive. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. Therefore, one may say without being presumptuous that the experience of experiences is being alive.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Life, Appreciation, Warrior

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• Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Silence, Finals

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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.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Stars, Light, Flames

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• A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Life, Spiritual, Encouragement

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Respect, Courage

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Attitude, Knowledge, Responsibility

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Friendship, Warrior, Honor

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Second Ring of Power”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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

  Carlos Castaneda

  Motivational, Reality, Juan

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

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• A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Regret, Warrior, Challenges

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• A warrior, on the other hand, is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. But once his calculations are over he acts. He lets go. That's abandon.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Letting Go, Warrior, Hands

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

  Homer

  Family, Money, World And Love

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• 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.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Power, People

  Carlos Castaneda (2017). “The Fire From Within”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Men, Self, Enemy

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

  Lord Byron

  Moral, Sometimes, Sin

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 1, st. 133

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• To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Worry, Exhausted, Desperation

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Self, Juan

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

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• The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so,believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Believe, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Karma, Fathers Day, Soul

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• Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

  Carlos Castaneda

  Knowing, Useless, Kind

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

  Carlos Castaneda

  Words Of Wisdom, Desire, Use

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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