Top 13 Carlos Castañeda Quotes



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

 

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.

 

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

 

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 he can reach it.

 

The aim of sorcerers is to reach a state of total awareness in order to experience all the possibilities of perception available to man. This state of awareness even implies an alternative way of dying.

 

For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.

 

 

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