Quotes from Carlos Castaneda

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge.

A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.

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.

To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

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.

Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

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

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.

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

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

We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

Your problems is that you think you have time.

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.

A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.