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
fashion strong order
Don Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most intense fashion, and that it was absurd. I had now realized I could work just the same in making myself complete and strong. "The trick is in what one emphasizes," he said. "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
jesus crosses very-happy
Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
heart gestures path
Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.
who-i-am knows
How can I know who I am when I am all this?
heart men laughing
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
warrior consistency spirit
...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.
letting-go spiritual fashion
A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do thingsagainst himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions.
people historical personal-history
It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people
real reality don-juan
The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
warrior ghouls worst
If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.
freedom touching perception
The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.
journey awareness force
Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.
eye unique world
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.
children effort matter
The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.