Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

Carlos Castaneda

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

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

Tonight in your dreams you must look at your hands.

Carlos Castaneda

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

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

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

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