Are you angry at me, don Juan? I asked when he returned. He seemed surprised at my question.No! I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You getangry at pe...
A warrior must focus his attention on the link between himself and his death . . .. He must let each of his acts be his last battle on earth. Only under those conditions will his acts have their right...
A man of knowledge has no honor, no dignity, no family, no name, no country...
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it m...
A hunter knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry. To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desp...
Ma seule raison, c'est de vouloir vraiment apprendre, juste pour savoir. Je vous assure, Don Juan, que mes intentions ne sont pas mauvaises.- Je vous crois, je vous ai fumé.- Je vous demande pardon ?-...
Я задам этот вопрос тебе: имеет ли твой путь сердце? Все пути одинаковы: они ведут в никуда. Они ведут через кусты или в кусты. Я могу сказать, что в своей жизни прошел длинные-длинные пути, но я не н...
Хората обичат да им се казва какво да правят, но още повече обичат да се борят да не вършат това, което им е казано да направят, и така намразват човека, който им го е казал
Сначала мы учимся обо всем думать, — сказал он. — А потом приучаем глаза смотреть на то, о чем думаем. Человек смотрит на себя и думает, что он очень важен. И начинает чувствовать себя важным. Но пото...
Научившись видеть, человек обнаруживает, что одинок в мире. Больше нет никого и ничего, кроме той глупости, о которой мы говорим,
Най-трудното нещо на света е воинът да остави другите да бъдат самите себе си.
Мы всегда должны брать ровно столько, сколько нам нужно.
«Он говорил, что для меня единственным различием между восприятием моего мира и восприятием их мира является то, что восприятие их мира начиналось и заканчивалось в мгновение ока. Восприятие моего пов...
«В лунном свете холмы вокруг города были ясно видны и почти узнаваемы. Я пытался сориентироваться, наблюдая за Луной и звездами так, словно я находился в реальной повседневной жизни. Месяц был на ущер...
Permission. I have to ask your permission, don Juan said, because you’re the only one who can allow the words pent up inside you to be tapped. I think I made the mistake of assuming you understand mor...
You take yourself too seriously, he said slowly. You are too damn important in your own mind. That must be changed! You are so goddamn important that you feel justified to be annoyed with everything....
The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway...
The indulgence of denying is by far the worst; it forces us to believe we are doing great things, when in effect we are only fixed within ourselves. To
He remarked that each of us was barred from silent knowledge by natural barriers, specific to each individual; and that the most impregnable of my barriers was the drive to disguise my complacency as...
For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking brea...