Frases de Carlos Castaneda

“No tienes que hacer nada para caer bien o mal. O te acepta o te tira de lado.”

“¡la claridad! Esa claridad de mente, tan difícil de obtener, dispersa el miedo, pero también ciega.
"Fuerza al hombre a no dudar nunca de sí. Le da la seguridad de que puede hacer cuanto se le antoje, porque todo lo ve con claridad. Y tiene valor porque tiene claridad, y no se detiene en nada porque tiene claridad. Pero todo eso es un error; es como si viera algo claro pero incompleto. Si el hombre se rinde a esa ilusión de poder, ha sucumbido a su segundo enemigo y será torpe para aprender. Se apurará cuando debía ser paciente, o será paciente cuando debería apurarse. Y tonteará con el aprendizaje, hasta que termine incapaz de aprender nada más.”

“Ningún camino lleva a ninguna parte, pero uno tiene corazón y el otro no. Uno hace gozoso el viaje; mientras lo sigas, eres uno con él. El otro te hará maldecir la vida. Uno te hace fuerte, el otro te debilita.”

“Poco sabía yo en ese tiempo que don Juan no me estaba dando solamente una descripción intelectual atractiva; me estaba describiendo algo que él llamaba un hecho energético. Para él, los hechos energéticos eran las conclusiones a las que él y los otros chamanes de su linaje llegaron a involucrarse en una función que llamaban ver: el acto de percibir energía directamente como fluye del universo.”

“La idea de que las interpretaciones perceptuales que configuran el mundo tienen un fluir es congruente con el hecho de que corren sin interrupción y rara vez, o nunca, se ponen en tela de juicio. De hecho, la realidad del mundo que conocemos se da a tal grado por sentada que la premisa básica de la brujería, la de que nuestra realidad es apenas una de muchas descripciones, difícilmente podría tomarse como una proposición seria.”

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

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

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

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

“Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I.

Don Juan Matus”

“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 then it is of no use to us.”

“For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.”

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

“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.”

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

“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”

“Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.”

“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.”

“You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”

“Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.”

“Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.”

“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.”

“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.”

“For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himself and others. He doesn’t use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.”

“Dissipating a mood through overanalyzing it wastes our power.”

“A warrior knows that he is waiting and knows also what he is waiting for, and while he waits he feasts his eyes on the world. The ultimate accomplishment of a warrior is joy.”

“Shamanism is a journey of return. A warrior returns victorious to the spirit, having descended into hell. And from hell he brings trophies. Understanding is one of his trophies.”

“A warrior doesn't need personal history. One day, he finds it is no longer necessary for him, and he drops it.”

“The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.”

“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it”

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

“Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

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

“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”