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
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.
tired mindfulness deaf-and-blind
Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan
heart unhappy path
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
men self enemy
Self importance is man's greatest enemy.
balance known universe
We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
spiritual silence finals
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.
simple thinking giving
The reason you keep on coming back to see me is very simple; every time you have seen me your body has learned certain things, even against your desire. And finally your body now needs to come back to me to learn more. Let's say that your body knows that it is going to die, even though you never think about it. So I've been telling your body that I too am going to die and before I do I would like to show our body certain things, things which you cannot give to your body yourself... So let's say then that your body returns to me because I am its friend
warrior challenges juan
Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.
inspiration heart looks
Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.
men metaphysical ifs
Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.
feelings words-of-wisdom awareness
We're a feeling, an awareness encased here
warrior words-of-wisdom enlightenment
There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment
self investing juan
Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.
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.