Top 180 Carlos Castaneda Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional. He is turned is back to the world of the foreboding and the exulting and has welcomed the world of boredom.”

— Carlos Castaneda

52. “When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.”

— Carlos Castaneda

53. “You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.”

— Carlos Castaneda

54. “Man has a dark side, yes, and it is called stupidity.”

— Carlos Castaneda

55. “Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?”

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56. “Seeing energy as it flows is an imperious need on the path of knowledge. Ultimately, all the effort of sorcerers is guided to that end. It is not enough for a warrior to know that the universe is energy; he has to verify it for himself.”

— Carlos Castaneda

57. “The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.”

— Carlos Castaneda

58. “You have little time left, and none of it for crap. A fine state. I would say that the best of us always comes out when we are against the wall, when we feel the sword dangling overhead. Personally, I wouldn’t have it any other way.”

— Carlos Castaneda

59. “Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?”

— Carlos Castaneda

60. “It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people.”

— Carlos Castaneda

61. “A warrior, on the other hand, is a hunter. He calculates everything. That’s control. But once his calculations are over he acts. He lets go. That’s abandon.”

— Carlos Castaneda

62. “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.”

— Carlos Castaneda

63. “Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.”

— Carlos Castaneda

64. “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

65. “The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit.”

— Carlos Castaneda

66. “Learn to see, and then you’ll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.”

— Carlos Castaneda

67. “Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.”

— Carlos Castaneda

68. “If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.”

— Carlos Castaneda

69. “To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.”

— Carlos Castaneda

70. “A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn’t know where his death is going to find him.”

— Carlos Castaneda

71. “There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn’t do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.”

— Carlos Castaneda

72. “A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.”

— Carlos Castaneda

73. “Men have to be hooked. Women don’t need that. Women go freely into anything. That’s their power and at the same time their drawback. Men have to be led and women have to be contained.”

— Carlos Castaneda

74. “A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.”

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75. “Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.”

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76. “A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.”

— Carlos Castaneda

77. “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

78. “Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.”

— Carlos Castaneda

79. “Burn your bridges every 2 years.”

— Carlos Castaneda

80. “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.”

— Carlos Castaneda

81. “Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it.”

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82. “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

83. “The sorcerer’s description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.”

— Carlos Castaneda

84. “Crows are not always available to give warning.”

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85. “There’s no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal.”

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86. “It doesn’t matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.”

— Carlos Castaneda

87. “A warrior knows that he is only a man. His only regret is that his life is so short that he can’t grab onto all the things he would like to. But for him, this is not an issue; it’s only a pity.”

— Carlos Castaneda

88. “Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.”

— Carlos Castaneda

89. “Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won’t give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything.”

— Carlos Castaneda

90. “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.”

— Carlos Castaneda

91. “We’re a feeling, an awareness encased here.”

— Carlos Castaneda

92. “We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.”

— Carlos Castaneda

93. “I’m afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.”

— Carlos Castaneda

94. “It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself – reflective expectations.”

— Carlos Castaneda

95. “All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.”

— Carlos Castaneda

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

— Carlos Castaneda

97. “I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.”

— Carlos Castaneda

98. “The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!”

— Carlos Castaneda

99. “It is important to have a perspective then only through seeing the world is it possible to transcend ideas such as the Flyers, and other aberrant thought forms. With ruthlessness, cunning patience and sweetness, it can be cracked.”

— Carlos Castaneda

100. “To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.”

— Carlos Castaneda