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Carlos Castaneda
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„A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.“
„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.“
„I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.“
„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.“
„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“
„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.“
„Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.“
„You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.“
„You have little time left, and none of it for crap. A fine state. I would say that the best of us always comes out when we are against the wall, when we feel the sword dangling overhead. Personally, I wouldn’t have it any other way.“
„The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.“
„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“
„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.“
„Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.“
„The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.“
„Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.“
„The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.“
„We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.“
„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.“
„For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himself and others. He doesn’t use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.“
„For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length–and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.“
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