Carlos Castaneda Quotes

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

I've always been a big fan of Philip K. Dick; I love his work. There's a returning theme of identity and the fragility of our identity. Even when we are looking at what we think is a stark reality, it might actually be something completely different.

There are only two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand that this is a matrix, and then there are the people who buy it lock, stock and barrel.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

Reason is the illusion of reality

The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general koan into how we go about forming this world in which we live, in particular with seeing.

The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector.

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

The world isn't what you think it is.

I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

The world you perceive is a drastically simplified model of the real world.