Saturday, March 21, 2015

Castaneda - Tales of Power

Castaneda - Tales of Power
“We are luminous beings, and for a luminous being only personal power matters”

“What matters is that a warrior be impeccable.  What matters to a warrior is arriving at the totality of oneself.” 
“The self-confidence of a warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man.  The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence.  The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness.  The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to himself.” 
“The internal dialog is what grounds us.  The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about it being such and such or so and so.”
 
Seeing happens only when the warrior is capable of stopping the internal dialog.” 
 
An impeccable warrior is one who does not waste his energy/personal power by worrying, procrastinating, coming up with preconceived notions, etc.  The warrior conserves and directs his energy toward learning to recognize the light within himself and all other luminous beings.  
The only way to change our ideas of the world, is by learning to stop the continuous inner dialog.  Must we comment on everything?  Are we actually creating this world with our habitual descriptions of it?
 
-The Ram
 
(Excerpts from Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda in quotations)





 

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