Meandering on the path . . .

Today is the birthday of Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) anthropologist and author. He is best known for the book The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.

"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
- Carlos Castaneda

"A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use."
- Carlos Castaneda

"For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it."
- Carlos Castaneda

"We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds."
- Carlos Castaneda

"We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye."
- Carlos Castaneda

"A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. "
- Carlos Castaneda

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