Carlos Castaneda Quotes

Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.

I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

A man's heart tells him his opportunities better than seven watchmen on a tower.

Don't follow in my footsteps; follow your heart.

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.

Because the truth is, nobody knows what's best for you better than you do. You have to really sit still and ask yourself: What do I want? Does this feel right? What should I do? I realized I had to go back and do what I had always done. Listening to my gut was just as important as listening to the advice of others, and only I knew what was best for me.

If your heart, head and gut are telling you the same thing, then you owe it to yourself to chase it.

Listen to your Own Heart Concerning the Path you Wish to Travel.

It isn’t necessary to know exactly how your ideal life will look; you only have to know what feels better and what feels worse…Begin making choices based on what makes you feel freer and happier, rather than on how you think an ideal life should look. It’s the process of feeling our way toward happiness, not the realization of the Platonic ideal, that creates our best lives.

In a recent issue of Parade Magazine when asked for "Advice for a Younger You," Glenn Close responded: "I'd tell myself to listen to my heart. Listen to that little voice that says, 'Mmm, I don't think so.' Because when you override that, you basically override who you are.

What's your heart telling you to do? I don't know.' Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I forfeited my ability to listen creatively to my deepest self, to my own God within.

Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.

True navigation begins in the human heart. It's the most important map of all.