If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos. Carlos Castaneda More Quotes by Carlos Castaneda More Quotes From Carlos Castaneda In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link. Carlos Castaneda spiritual wise positive We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever we finish talking to ourselves about ourselves and our world, the world is always as it should be. We renew it, we rekindle it with life, we uphold it with our internal talk. Not only that, but we also choose our paths as we talk to ourselves. Thus we repeat the same choices over and over until the day we die, because we keep on repeating the same internal talk over and over until the day we die. A warrior is aware of this and strives to stop his internal talk. Carlos Castaneda warrior attitude life A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. Carlos Castaneda warrior inspirational thinking You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way. Carlos Castaneda like-you way 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. Carlos Castaneda change spiritual heart Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity. Carlos Castaneda wall spiritual success The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy. Carlos Castaneda inventory energy men 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. Carlos Castaneda challenges heart may Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid. Carlos Castaneda warrior attitude reality The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive. Carlos Castaneda balance alive wonder A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. Carlos Castaneda men knowledge thinking It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us Carlos Castaneda idiocy conquer energy A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything. Carlos Castaneda wisdom spiritual death It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos. Carlos Castaneda creativity learning inspiration 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 Carlos Castaneda enlightenment words-of-wisdom warrior You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power. Carlos Castaneda mother listening running 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 Carlos Castaneda fright spirit The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do. Carlos Castaneda secret When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to. Carlos Castaneda warrior honor friendship 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. Carlos Castaneda courage inspirational life
