Inspirational quotes
Carlos Castaneda
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A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it.
~ Carlos Castaneda Quotes from The Teachings of Don Juan
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A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.
~ Carlos Castaneda Quotes from Tales of Power
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A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.
~ Carlos Castaneda Quotes from Journey to Ixtlan
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A warrior chooses a path with heart, any path with heart, and follows it; and then he rejoices and laughs. He knows because he sees that his life will be over altogether too soon. He sees that nothing is more important than anything else.
~ Carlos Castaneda Quotes from A Separate Reality
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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 Quotes from Tales of Power
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A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.
~ Carlos Castaneda Quotes from Journey to Ixtlan
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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 things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions.
~ Carlos Castaneda Quotes from Journey to Ixtlan
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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 Quotes from A Separate Reality
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A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for a warrior is being alive. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. Therefore, one may say without being presumptuous that the experience of experiences is being alive.
~ Carlos Castaneda Quotes from Tales of Power
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A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.
~ Carlos Castaneda Quotes from Journey to Ixtlan

