Carlos Castaneda Quotes

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun [fundamental awake human nature]. Then the warrior [brave enough to look at & work with reality] can make a proper cup of tea.

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.

Yesterday's pain is the Warrior of the Light's strength.

Here's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.

A warrior of the Light does not rely on strength alone; he makes use of his opponent's energy, too.

When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.

His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.

Foster and polish the warrior spirit while serving in the world; illuminate the path according to your inner light.

We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.

Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Life never forgives weaknesses.

Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.

Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.

I will survive For as long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive.

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.

Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

The beauty's in the scars.

I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -