Carlos Castaneda
Carlos Castaneda
Carlos Castanedawas an American author with a Ph.D. in anthropology...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 December 1925
CountryUnited States of America
feelings words-of-wisdom awareness
We're a feeling, an awareness encased here
reality world way
Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
war men don-juan
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.
dream self realizing
Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self.
self investing juan
Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.
positive attitude warrior
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.
men self enemy
Self importance is man's greatest enemy.
secret world mystery
The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.
learning health warrior
When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.
courage struggle warrior
To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.
heart answers path
Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.
warrior juan action
A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.
warrior action don-juan
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.
perfection body units
The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit