Carlos Castañeda Quotes

Any path is only a path and there is no affront to oneself or to others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess, to pick it up.

For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.

The aim of sorcerers is to reach a state of total awareness in order to experience all the possibilities of perception available to man. This state of awareness even implies an alternative way of dying.

Every warrior on the path of knowledge thinks, at one time or another, that he's learning sorcery, but all he's doing is allowing himself to be convinced of the power hidden in his being, and that he can reach it.

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

Nothing is pending in the world…nothing is finished, yet nothing is unresolved…Everything is filled to the brim.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.