If a warrior is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

Carlos Castaneda The Wheel of Time: The Shamans of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life Death & the Universe
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About Carlos Castaneda

Carlos Castañeda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was an American writer. Starting in 1968, Castaneda published a series of books that describe a training in shamanism that he received under the tutelage of a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge" named don Juan Matus. While Castaneda's work was accepted as factual by many when the books were first published, the training he described is now generally considered to be fictional.

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Неуязвимость означает делать лучшее, что можешь во всем, во что ты вовлечен.

"The great issue with us males is our frailty," he went on. "When our awareness begins to
grow, it grows like a column, right on the midpoint of our luminous being, from the ground up. That column has to reach a considerable height before we can rely on it. At this time in your life, as a sorcerer, you easily lose your grip on your new awareness. When you do that, you forget everything you have done and seen on the warrior-travelers' path because your consciousness shifts back to the awareness of your everyday life. I have explained to you that the task of every male sorcerer is to reclaim everything he has done and seen on the warrior-travelers' path while he was on new levels of awareness. The problem of every male sorcerer is that he easily forgets because his awareness loses its new level and falls to the ground at the drop of a hat."

"Номерът е на какво ще наблегнеш - каза той. - Ние или сами се правим нещастни, или се правим силни. Обемът на работата е един и същ." Пътят към Икстлан - Карлос Кастанеда