r/castaneda Archive

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"intent comes to them only for something that is abstract. That's the safety valve for sorcerers; otherwise they would be unbearable. In your case, beckoning intent to resolve the conflict of your two minds, or to hear the voice of your true mind, is not a petty or arbitrary matter."

General Knowledge u/thisgreatusername 2019-09-12 18:06 10 comments

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"The sorcerers of olden times, who gave us the entire format of sorcery, believed that there is sadness in the universe, as a force, a condition, like light, like intent, and that this perennial force acts especially on sorcerers because they no longer have any defensive shields."

Stalking u/thisgreatusername 2019-09-03 18:39 4 comments

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"I saw his death instead, and there was no sadness, no feeling. His death was equal to everything else."

u/thisgreatusername 2019-08-29 21:29 14 comments

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"You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life. I have tried to teach you that the real experience is to be a man, and that what counts is being alive; life is the little detour that we are taking now. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete."

u/thisgreatusername 2019-02-11 19:59 0 comments

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"For a warrior there is time only for his impeccability; everything else drains his power. Impeccability replenishes it."

u/thisgreatusername 2019-01-17 23:04 2 comments

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"The idea of death is the only thing that can give sorcerers courage"

u/thisgreatusername 2019-01-11 19:52 1 comments

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"There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction: How can man keep the bonds of his humanness and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity?"

u/thisgreatusername 2018-12-21 19:49 5 comments

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"But when we try to pin down that other side the tonal gets hold of the baton, and as a director it is quite petty and jealous. It dazzles us with its cunningness and forces us to obliterate the slightest inkling of the other part of the true pair, the nagual"

u/thisgreatusername 2018-11-15 17:41 0 comments

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" I personally detest the darkness and morbidity of the mind. I like the immensity of thought."

u/thisgreatusername 2018-11-04 23:18 1 comments

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Speaking of inorganic beings, "They love slavery, and I love freedom."

u/thisgreatusername 2018-11-01 22:51 0 comments

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"His recommendation was that I should not have remorse for anything I had done because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil was to place an unwarranted importance on the self. "

u/thisgreatusername 2018-10-30 19:30 1 comments

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" 'We're warriors, and warriors have only one thing in mind--their freedom. To die and be eaten by the Eagle is no challenge. On the other hand, to sneak around the Eagle and be free is the ultimate audacity.' "

u/thisgreatusername 2018-10-30 19:22 1 comments

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" 'You willed it, and thus you set a new intent, a new command. Then your command became the Eagle's command.' "

u/thisgreatusername 2018-10-26 01:30 1 comments

6

" 'Warriors prepare themselves to be aware, and full awareness comes to them only when there is no more self-importance left in them. Only when they are nothing do they become everything.' "

u/thisgreatusername 2018-10-26 01:21 0 comments

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" 'I've told you, this is a weird world,' he said. 'The forces that guide men are unpredictable, awesome, yet their splendour is something to witness.' "

u/thisgreatusername 2018-10-23 20:44 0 comments

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" 'You don't have time, my friend,' he said. 'That is the misfortune of human beings. None of us have sufficient time, and your continuity has no meaning in this awesome, mysterious world. 'Your continuity only makes you timid,' "

u/thisgreatusername 2018-10-18 18:45 0 comments

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" 'Their happiness is to act with the full knowledge that they don't have time. Therefore, their acts have a peculiar power; their acts have a sense of...' [...] 'Acts have power' "

u/thisgreatusername 2018-10-18 18:39 0 comments

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"A warrior always tries to affect the force of doing by changing it into not-doing."

u/thisgreatusername 2018-10-14 00:27 6 comments

8

" 'Forget the self and you will fear nothing in whatever level of awareness you find yourself to be,' "

u/thisgreatusername 2018-08-29 19:48 1 comments

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"If you don't act impeccably, if you begin to fret and get impatient and desperate, you'll be cut down mercilessly by the sharpshooters from the unknown."

u/thisgreatusername 2018-08-20 21:44 0 comments

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"warriors are in the world to train themselves to be unbiased witnesses so as to understand the mystery of ourselves, and relish the exultation of finding what we really are. This is the highest of the new seers' goals."

u/thisgreatusername 2018-07-14 18:47 0 comments

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"+the totality of ourselves is a natural condition which the tonal cannot obliterate altogether, and there are moments, especially in the life of a warrior, when the totality becomes apparent. At those moments one can surmise and assess what we really are."

u/thisgreatusername 2018-07-14 18:19 2 comments

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"It is of no use to be sad and complain, and feel justified in doing so, believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior."

u/thisgreatusername 2018-07-02 17:15 0 comments

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"The island of the tonal has to be swept clean and maintained clean. That's the only alternative that a warrior has. A clean island offers no resistance. It is as if there were nothing there."

General Knowledge u/thisgreatusername 2018-05-16 22:01 7 comments

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it could be said that they intuit everything unerringly and accurately. Reading omens is commonplace for sorcerers. Mistakes happen only when personal feelings intervene and cloud the sorcerers' connecting link with intent.

Intent u/thisgreatusername 2018-05-08 17:21 0 comments