Carlos Castaneda Juan Quotations

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.

Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.

A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.

A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.

Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I. Don Juan Matus

Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.