349 Quotes by Carlos Castaneda

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

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

A man of knowledge has no honor, no dignity, no family, no name, no country...

I asked him if there was a way in which he could accept just my desire to learn, as if I were an Indian.

«Страх ничего не значит по сравнению с любовью. Страх заставляет двигаться как попало, любовь заставляет двигаться разумно.»

Perhaps it's not possible to explain," he said. "Certain things in your life matter to you because they're important; your acts are certainly important to you, but for me, not a single thin is important any longer neither my acts nor the acts of any of my fellow men. I go on living though. because I have my will. Because I have tempered my will throughout my life until it's neat and wholesome and now it doesn't matter to me that nothing matters. My will controls the folly of my life.

He explained that the leaf had fallen over and over from that same tree so I would stop trying to understand.

He went on to say that conclusions arrived at through reasoning had very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives. Hence, the countless examples of people who have the clearest convictions and yet act diametrically against them time and time again, and have as the only explanation for their behavior the idea that to err is human.