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—These are the limits of which I speak

I said— One can get out from them. We're a feeling, a realizing boxed here...

We are luminous beings —he said, wagging his head rhythmically—. And the only thing that matters for a luminous being is personal power...

To achieve success in any enterprise one must go very slowly, with great effort, but withut tension or obsessions...

A warrior takes his fate, whatever that is, and accept it with the utmost humility. It is accepted with humility as it is, not as complaining basis, but as a basis for his struggle and challenge...

I only know the warrior humility, and that will never let me be anyone's master...

All our fellow human beings are evil witches. And as you mingle with them, you're also an evil sorcerer. Think a moment. Can you deviate from the path set out for you? No. Your ideas and your actions are fixed forever on their terms. This is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is very expensive, but the price is not impossible...

A warrior must be calm and poise, and must never to lose his stirrups..." C.C.

THE DREAMER AND REVERIE

One of the warrior objectives is to fight against his reason, but at the same time calm his mind. Warriors do not get their victories breaking rocks with the head; a warrior, just goes around them and avoids wear out and being accessible to the world.

A warrior must develop the feeling that he does not need anything; a warrior does not need to help or being understood, because he knows that the real experience is being a human being and alive, and to become aware of the immeasurable and wonderful possibilities he has. One of the everyday warrior tasks is cultivate and maintaining the sense of "realizing", so he never "lets his guard down".

Don Juan and Don Genaro teach Castaneda, the energy potential that a knowledge being can have, provided, he can develop the ability to produce "a double" by saving energy and using the reverie technique.

The potential a luminous being has through energy management would seem incredible, but are completely real. Common man know very little of these energy skills and even less is likely to use them.

"He added that the only way to counteract the devastating impact of the witches world is to make fun of it...

A warrior acts as if never anything happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, but accepts everything as it stands. Accepts without accepting and discards without discarding. Never feels as if he knew nor feels as if nothing had happened. He acts as if he had control, although he is trembling from fear. Acting this way dissipates obsession...

You must cultivate the feeling that a warrior does not need anything. You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything you need for the extravagant journey that is your life. I have tried to teach you that the true experience is to be a man, and what matters is to be alive; life is the little ride we are now taking. Life in itself is sufficient and explains itself, and it is complete.

"A warrior understands this and lives accordingly; therefore, one can say without bragging, that the experience of experiences is being a warrior."...