Carlos Castaneda Quotes

Not just whether but how we find our way truly matters.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

All paths lead nowhere; choose one with heart...

We all get lost along the way, but hopefully we figure out some sort of path. It helps if you can imagine the process as well as the goal. Those kinds of dreams are easier to achieve.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.

Valuing the road over the goal was a Taoist goal in itself.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go.

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

I do think it’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of your life and the world that you can see what you most deeply care about… and find a home.

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

Spiritual beings do not sweat life's small stuff. They also know that most of what drives us crazy in life is small stuff. The only thing that isn't small stuff is the reason you're on earth in the first place: to find that portion of the world's lost heart that only you can ransom with your love and authentic gifts and then return it, so that all of us can experience Wholeness.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.

Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.

For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.

The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.

You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all.

Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate.

The thing is, it has to do with heart - we have to understand what hearts are for before we can get back to heaven or paradise or the power in our minds.

It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.

If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home.

Even an empty road leads somewhere, right?