Carlos Castaneda

You see all of us go through the same doubts. We are afraid of being mad; unfortunately for us, of course, all of us are already mad.

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

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.

The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere, but one has a heart, the other doesn’t. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life.

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

Forget the self and you will fear nothing in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.

A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.