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
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When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisitesto be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurancethere are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.
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I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.
warrior action don-juan
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.
warrior juan action
A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.
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.
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.
men
The world around us is a mystery, and men are no better than anything else.
feeling
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy, and vain.
examining exploiting men prevents timid
Being timid prevents us from examining and exploiting our lot as men
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.
brought determines matter personal
It doesnt matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.
advantages constitution explain
But we just had to explain to them the advantages and disadvantages of amending our Constitution.
amount either ourselves quotes scholars-and-scholarship work
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
deception fail using worthwhile
it's better to get something worthwhile done using deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth.