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

Carlos Castaneda

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

Carlos Castaneda

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda

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

Carlos Castaneda

The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.

Carlos Castaneda

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

Carlos Castaneda

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

Carlos Castaneda

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

Carlos Castaneda

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

Carlos Castaneda

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

Carlos Castaneda

We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

Carlos Castaneda

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.

Carlos Castaneda