Carlos Castaneda Quotes

Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.

The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.

Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory.

Do not become the slave of your model.

Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle that they need to overcome or get away from. With awareness, an inner sense of spaciousness arises that enables you to look at your own mind, which is to say the human mind, with a certain degree of detachment.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

You can be very fulfilled as a mother, but that can't be the only way you are fulfilled. What about being a woman? What about being yourself? Your awareness of what's happening in the world? It lives altogether in a way that makes a whole. I guess I'd say I'm the wholest I've ever been.

All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.

I wasn't disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that's why I knew it just wasn't right for me.

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

What people really suffer from is immaturity. Among mature people war would not be a problem - it would be impossible.

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure

I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.

Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.

Do not remove the kinks from your hair--remove them from your brain.