“You think and talk too much. You’re not unique at that. Every one of us does that.”
“Whenever we finish talking to ourselves the world is always
as it should be. We renew it, we kindle
it with life, we uphold it with our internal talk. Not only that, but we also choose our paths
as we talk to ourselves. Thus we repeat
the same choices over and over until the day we die, because we keep on
repeating the same internal talk over and over until the day we die.”
“How can I stop talking to myself?”
“First of all you must use your ears to take some of the
burden from your eyes. We have been using
our eyes to judge the world since the time we were born. We talk to others and ourselves mainly about
what we see. A warrior is aware of that
and listens to the world; he listens to the sounds of the world.”
“In order to become a man of knowledge one must be a
warrior, not a whimpering child. One
must strive without giving up, without a complaint, without flinching, until
one sees.”
“Seeing is for
impeccable men. Temper your spirit now,
learn to see, and then you’ll know
that there is no end to the new worlds for our vision.”
When one begins to pay
attention to their own inner dialog, they may find it’s like two sides of the
self, talking to each other. The
impeccable part, the inner or higher-self, and the other, inner-critic part
that negates and shoots down most of the ideas arising from the impeccable
part.
Through the Castaneda
series, the three main techniques for self-mastery are stalking, dreaming and
intent. If one desires the ability to quiet
or stop the inner dialog, it can be accomplished by employing the Art of
stalking. Which means stalking one’s own
thinking. Watching just what is being
said and then discovering which ‘part of the self’ is saying it.
-The Ram
(Excerpts from A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda in quotations)
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