My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.
Carlos CastanedaFor an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.
Carlos CastanedaThe path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.
Carlos CastanedaYou say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.
Carlos CastanedaThere is no way to escape the doing of our world, so what a warrior does is to turn his world into his hunting ground. As a hunter, a warrior knows that the world is made to be used. So he uses every bit of it. A warrior is like a pirate that has no qualms in taking and using anything he wants, except that a warrior doesn't mind or he doesn't feel insulted when he is used and taken himself
Carlos Castaneda