Carlos Castaneda Quotes on Growth
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On the Path of Knowledge there are four natural enemies: fear, clarity, power and old age.
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It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.
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Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
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The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
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There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.
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To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.