Carlos Castaneda Quotes

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

I think and that is all that I am.

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

I have no inner monologue.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.

At times I think and at times I am.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The only journey is the one within.

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

I think we're all very curious about our own minds, but we just may not have the tools to channel that.