We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye. - Carlos Castañeda

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We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

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About Carlos Castañeda

Carlos Castañeda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was an American writer. Starting in 1968, Castaneda published a series of books that describe a training in shamanism that he received under the tutelage of a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge" named don Juan Matus. While Castaneda's work was accepted as factual by many when the books were first published, the training he described is now generally considered to be fictional.

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Native Name: Carlos Castaneda
Alternative Names: Carlos César Salvador Arana Castañeda

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В мире, где за каждым охотится смерть, не может быть маленьких или больших решений. Здесь есть лишь решения, которые мы принимаем перед лицом своей неминуемой смерти.

Мы есть светящиеся существа. Мы - восприниматели. Мы - осознание. Мы - не предметы, мы не имеем твердости, мы безграничны. Мир предметов и твердости - это только способ сделать легким наш проход по земле. Это только описание, которое мы создали, чтобы оно помогало нам. Мы, или вернее наш разум забывает, что описание это только описание и таким образом мы заключаем целостность нас самих в заколдованный круг, из которого мы редко вырываемся в течение нашей жизни.

He said that I was a man. And like any man I deserved everything that was a man’s lot — joy, pain, sadness and struggle — and that the nature of one’s acts was unimportant as long as one acted as a warrior. Lowering his voice to almost a whisper, he said that if I really felt that my spirit was distorted I should simply fix it — purge it, make it perfect — because there was no other task in our entire lives which was more worthwhile. Not to fix the spirit was to seek death, and that was the same as to seek nothing, since death was going to overtake us regardless of anything. He paused for a long time and then he said with a tone of profound conviction, “To seek the perfection of the warrior’s spirit is the only task worthy of our manhood.

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