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
deception fail using worthwhile
it's better to get something worthwhile done using deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth.
brought determines matter personal
It doesnt matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.
money took
They took money away from us for years, and we never got it back.
emptiness filled life
Theres no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal.
feeling
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy, and vain.
acts evil importance isolate remorse warrior
A warrior doesnt know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate ones acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.
examining exploiting men prevents timid
Being timid prevents us from examining and exploiting our lot as men
men
The world around us is a mystery, and men are no better than anything else.
advantages constitution explain
But we just had to explain to them the advantages and disadvantages of amending our Constitution.
warrior thinking acting
A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.
attitude eye responsibility
We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.
secret
The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do.
heart winning path
Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.
men inventory energy
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.