The difficulty is to learn to perceive with your whole body, not with just your eyes and reason. The world becomes a stream of tremendously rapid, unique events. So you must trim your body to make it a good receptor. The body is an awareness; and it must be treated impeccably.
Carlos CastanedaWe have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
Carlos CastanedaWe are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.
Carlos CastanedaWill is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.
Carlos CastanedaThe greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.
Carlos Castaneda