The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
Carlos CastanedaA man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.
Carlos CastanedaMen have to be hooked. Women don't need that. Women go freely into anything. That's their power and at the same time their drawback. Men have to be led and women have to be contained
Carlos CastanedaI had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.
Carlos Castaneda