Carlos Castaneda Quotes

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

You can't have eyes on the wall, or the angels won't come in. That's what we believe.

She tried to pray, but she had only ever prayed at night, and it seemed to her that the moons made poor protectors when angels chose to hunt by day.

Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.

If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.

Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.

The Bible says, "Take heed, lest you fall," but this has really been the story of my life. I've traveled into other realms in order to be a light and be a missionary. Some of them were very dangerous, and I don't look at this as any different.

God knows that sometimes we lack words to express our feelings, heart-cry, thoughts. And so within the Bible he includes people's prayers as models to help our own.

I think angels definitely offer all the imaginative possibilities that vampires do, and I think they've actually been popular in Western culture for longer than vampires have been. I hope they become a part of the culture again in a new way.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

God I hear you giving me an earfull but I'm gonna cruise in 5th gear until I'm near you.

I believe we are shown the path that is right as soon as we ask for it. Then we must live in the world and in some way express what we have learned.

To fulfill your mission will require that you abandon your agenda and accept God’s agenda for your life.

Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.

Take off your watch: the divine is speaking to you.

How many times... have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens inward. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.

On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.