Carlos Castaneda Quotes About Reality
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It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.
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Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.
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Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of socialization is to convince us that the descriptions we agree upon define the limits of the real world. What we call reality is only one way of seeing the world, a way that is supported by social consensus.
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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.
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The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
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Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
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For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.
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