Carlos Castaneda Quotes

Live dangerously and you live right.

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear.

Don't wait until you die to learn the warrior's way. Do it now, each night, just before you drift off to sleep. As you review your day, consider these two questions of courage and love. Learn from each day, so that each day you can show a little more courage and a little more love. Then, as incidents occur, you may rise to the occasion and look back at the end of your life and feel good about the way you lived.

I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future."

The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes - with just a touch of madness.

Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.

The warrior is Here, Now.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.

Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

I'm not scared to fail, I'm not scared to lose, I'm not scared to die, for that matter... It's going to work out the way it's supposed to work out.

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire is out of control, consuming all courage and pride.

The Warrior does not worry that, to others, his behavior might seem quite mad.

To live greatly, you have to risk greatly.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

Take a leap of faith. You will either land somewhere new or learn to fly.

So that my life be brave, what though not long?

Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown.

Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.