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What makes us unhappy is to want. Yet if we would learn to cut our wants to nothing, the smallest thing we’d get would be a true gift. - Carlos Castañeda
" "What makes us unhappy is to want. Yet if we would learn to cut our wants to nothing, the smallest thing we’d get would be a true gift.
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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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Carlos Castaneda
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Carlos César Salvador Arana Castañeda
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"Perhaps it's not possible to explain," he said. "Certain things in your life matter to you because they're important; your acts are certainly important to you, but for me, not a single thin is important any longer neither my acts nor the acts of any of my fellow men. I go on living though. because I have my will. Because I have tempered my will throughout my life until it's neat and wholesome and now it doesn't matter to me that nothing matters. My will controls the folly of my life."
«Темнота в номере этой гостиницы была необычной. Она навевала на меня чувство мира и гармонии. Она также принесла мне чувство глубокой грусти, тоски по человеческому теплу, по обществу. Я чувствовал себя более чем разбитым. Ничего подобного со мной никогда не было. Я лежал в постели, пытаясь вспомнить, была ли эта тоска чем-то таким, что я уже знал. Нет. Тоска, с которой я был знаком, была не по человеческому обществу; тогда это было чем-то абстрактным, скорее что-то вроде грусти о том, что я не сделал чего-то неопределенного.»
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control. Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan. (1971) p. 85; As cited in: Eugene Dupuis (2001) Time Shift: Managing Time to Create a Life You Love. Ch. 5: Self Management
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