Carlos Castaneda Quotes

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.

I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.

Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything.

Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

If you pay sufficient attention, everything in life is magnificent, everything is a doorway to the Divine.

Devotion is not drama. Devotion is a way of living. Devotion is the way you walk, the way you breathe, and the way your heart beats.

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.