The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do. Carlos Castaneda More Quotes by Carlos Castaneda More Quotes From Carlos Castaneda Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges. Carlos Castaneda juanwarriorchallenges ... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change. Carlos Castaneda warrioraveragemen The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes his way, free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That's the warrior's way. Carlos Castaneda warriorwisdomspiritual 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 warriorregretchallenges If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos. Carlos Castaneda stressedchaoshouse Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. Carlos Castaneda rehabilitationsucceedmen We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary. Carlos Castaneda warriorordinary The difficulty is to learn to perceive with your whole body, not with just your eyes and reason. The world becomes a stream of tremendously rapid, unique events. So you must trim your body to make it a good receptor. The body is an awareness; and it must be treated impeccably. Carlos Castaneda eventseyeunique The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity. Carlos Castaneda warrioraveragemen Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words. Carlos Castaneda surfaceour-wordsworld We're a feeling, an awareness encased here Carlos Castaneda words-of-wisdomawarenessfeelings Fright is something one can never get over. When a warrior is caught in such a tight spot he would simply turn his back to the ally without thinking twice. A warrior cannot indulge thus he cannot die of fright. A warrior allows the ally to come only when he is good and ready. When he is strong enough to grapple with the ally he opens up his gap and lurches out, grabs the ally, keeps him pinned down and maintains his stare on him for exactly the time he has to, then he moves his eyes away and releases the ally and lets him go. A warrior, my little friend, is the master at all times Carlos Castaneda eyestrongmoving Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there! Carlos Castaneda very-happycrossesjesus Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on Carlos Castaneda warrior And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal. Carlos Castaneda warriorspirituallife ... the daily world exists because we know how to hold its images; consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the world collapses Carlos Castaneda collapseattentionworld A hunter that is worth his salt does not catch game because he sets his traps, or because he knows the hunting routines of his prey, but because he himself has no routines. This is his advantage. He is not at all like the animals he is after, fixed by heavy routines and predictable quirks; he is free, fluid, unpredictable Carlos Castaneda huntinggamesanimal 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 finalssilencespiritual 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. Carlos Castaneda walllonelinessmen A warrior seeks to act rather than talk. Carlos Castaneda warriorspiritualinspirational
