Quotes About Awareness

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

Don Juan had always said to me that our great enemy is the fact that we never believe what is happening to us.

The average man is either victorious or defeated and, depending on that, he becomes a persecutor or a victim. These two conditions are prevalent as long as one does not see. Seeing dispels the illusion of victory, or defeat, or suffering.

The indulgence of denying is by far the worst; it forces us to believe we are doing great things, when in effect we are only fixed within ourselves. To

that a warrior, aware of the unfathomable mystery that surrounds him and aware of his duty to try to unravel it, takes his rightful place among mysteries and regards himself as one. Consequently, for a warrior there is no end to the mystery of being, whether being means being a pebble, or an ant, or oneself. That is a warrior's humbleness. One is equal to everything.

Discipline Makes the Glowing Coat of Awareness Unpalatable to the Predator.

It isn't that as time goes by you're learning sorcery; rather, what you're learning is to save energy. And this energy will enable you to handle some of the energy fields that are not employed in perceiving the ordinary world we know. Sorcery is a state of awareness.

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.

There is no beginning, the beginning is only in your thought.

Our will operates in spite of our indulgence. For example, your will is already opening your gap, little by little." "What gap are you talking about?" "There is a gap in us; like the soft spot on the head of a child which closes with age, this gap opens as one develops one's will.

perceiving the world" entails a process of apprehending whatever presents itself to us. This particular "perceiving" is done with our senses and with our will.

Remember what I've told you," he said. "Don't count on emotional realizations. Let your assemblage point move first, then years later have the realization.

Upon learning to see a man becomes everything by becoming nothing. He

You must wait patiently, knowing that you're waiting, and knowing what you're waiting for. That is the warrior's way. And if it is a matter of fulfilling your promise then you must be aware that you are fulfilling it. Then a time will come when your waiting will be over and you will no longer have to honor your promise.

the recapitulation, which consisted of a systematic scrutiny of one's life, segment by segment, an examination made not in the light of criticism or finding flaw, but in the light of an effort to understand one's life, and to change its course. Don Juan's claim was that once any practitioner has viewed his life in the detached manner that the recapitulation requires, there's no way to go back to the same life.

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.

Birds fly like birds and a man who has taken the devil's weed flies as such. - As birds do? - No, he flies as a man who has taken the weed.

there was no need to injure the shrubs, since we had already injured the quail.

I really felt I had lost my body, don Juan. You did. You mean, I really didn't have a body? What do you think yourself? well, I don't know. All I can tell you is what I felt. That is all there is in reality - what you felt.

The only difference between them is that a man who sees controls his folly, while his fellow men can't.

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Mo? po?iva na vrsti znanja koje ?ovek poseduje. Kakvog ima smisla znati ono što je beskorisno? To nas ne?e pripremiti za neizbežan susret sa nepoznatim.

Que cada uno de tus actos sea tu última batalla sobre la tierra

He remarked that each of us was barred from silent knowledge by natural barriers, specific to each individual; and that the most impregnable of my barriers was the drive to disguise my complacency as independence.