99+ Carlos Castaneda Quotes on Self determination, Spiritual and Death - Quotes.pub

Here you will find all the famous Carlos Castaneda quotes. There are more than 99+ quotes in our Carlos Castaneda quotes collection. We have collected all of them and made stunning Carlos Castaneda wallpapers & posters out of those quotes. You can use this wallpapers & posters on mobile, desktop, print and frame them or share them on the various social media platforms. You can download the quotes images in various different sizes for free. In the below list you can find quotes in various categories like Self determination, Spiritual and Death

Self-pity is the real enemy and the source of man’s misery. Without a degree of pity for himself, man could not afford to be as self-important as he is. However, once the force of self-importance is engaged, it develops its own momentum. And it is this seemingly independent nature of self-importance which gives it its fake sense of worth.

I had been reared, perhaps like everyone else, to have a readiness to accept man as an essentially weak and fallible creature.

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 perceiving the ordinary world we know. Sorcery is a state of awareness.

What makes us unhappy is to want. Yet if we would learn to cut our wants to nothing, the smallest thing we’d get would be a true gift.

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.

For instance, we need to look with our eyes to laugh,” he said, “because only when we look at things can we catch the funny edge of the world. On the other hand, when our eyes see, everything is so equal that nothing is funny.

Everything is filled to the brim,” he repeated, “and everything is equal. I’m not like your friend who just grew old. When I tell you that nothing matters I don’t mean it the way he does. For him, his struggle was not worth his while, because he was defeated; for me there is no victory, or defeat, or emptiness. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal and my struggle was worth my while.

My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.

Firsts Quotes

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on.

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.

Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked.

Remember what I’ve told you,” he said. “Don’t count on emotional realizations. Let your assemblage point move first, then years later have the realization.

If a warrior wants to pay back for all the favors he has received, and he has no one in particular to address his payment to, he can address it to the spirit of man, That’s always a very small account, and whatever one puts in it is more than enough.

My benefactor used to say the seeds are the ‘sober head’ – the only part that could fortify the heart of man.

How can I know who I am when I am all this?

The journey by itself was sufficient; any hope of arriving at a permanent position was outside the boundaries of his knowledge.

Our will operates in spite of our indulgence. For example, your will is already opening your gap, little by little.” “What gap are you talking about?” “There is a gap in us; like the soft spot on the head of a child which closes with age, this gap opens as one develops one’s will.

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Strong Quotes

A fine power is always heralded by great pain.

Don Juan had always said to me that our great enemy is the fact that we never believe what is happening to us.

You must wait patiently, knowing that you’re waiting, and knowing what you’re waiting for. That is the warrior’s way. And if it is a matter of fulfilling your promise then you must be aware that you are fulfilling it. Then a time will come when your waiting will be over and you will no longer have to honor your promise.

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

The only difference between them is that a man who sees controls his folly, while his fellow men can’t.

The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.

The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior,” he said. “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. “You are here, with me, because you want to be here. You should have assumed full responsibility by now, so the idea that you are at the mercy of the wind would be inadmissible.

If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.

The indulgence of denying is by far the worst; it forces us to believe we are doing great things, when in effect we are only fixed within ourselves. To.

When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.

If a warrior needs solace he simply chooses anyone and expresses to that person every detail of his turmoil. After all, the warrior is not seeking to be understood or helped; by talking he’s merely relieving himself of his pressure.

Discipline Makes the Glowing Coat of Awareness Unpalatable to the Predator.

A man of knowledge has no honor, no dignity, no family, no name, no country...

You take yourself too seriously, ” he said slowly. “You are too damn important in your own mind. That must be changed! You are so goddamn important that you feel justified to be annoyed with everything. You’re so damn important that you can afford to leave if things don’t go your way. I suppose you think that shows you have character. That’s nonsense! You’re weak, and conceited!” – Dom Juan.

La lucha que cada uno libra contra su antiguo ser dura toda la vida.

The shadows in the early morning don’t tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it’s useless to gaze very early in the day. Around six in the morning the shadows wake up, and they are best around five in the afternoon. Then they are fully awake.

To meet an ally a man must be a spotless warrior or the ally may turn against him and destroy him.

The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don’t do.

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.

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

Fright never injures anyone. What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do.

But we must know first that our acts are useless and yet we must proceed as if we didn’t know it. That’s a sorcerer’s controlled folly.

One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.

A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.

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.

We don’t need anyone to teach us sorcery, because there is really nothing to learn. What we need is a teacher to convince us that there is incalculable power at our fingertips. What a strange paradox!

Leave Jesus on the cross. He’s very happy there!

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

Warriors are incapable of feeling compassion because they no longer feel sorry for themselves. Without the driving force of self-pity, compassion is meaningless.

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

1
2
3
4
5