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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| af0b470 | We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. --Carlos Castaneda Don Juan, Journey to Ixtlan | John Bradshaw | ||
| c8e1305 | 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 independence. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| a79a3fd | the recapitulation, which consisted of a systematic scrutiny of one's life, segment by segment, an examination made not in the light of criticism or finding flaw, but in the light of an effort to understand one's life, and to change its course. Don Juan's claim was that once any practitioner has viewed his life in the detached manner that the recapitulation requires, there's no way to go back to the same life. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 47da4ff | I asked him if each of the two spots had a special name. He said that the good one was called the sitio and the bad one the enemy; he said these two places were the key to a man's wellbeing, especially for a man who was pursuing knowledge. The sheer act of sitting on one's spot created superior strength; on the other hand, the enemy weakened a man and could even cause his death. He said I had replenished my energy, which I had spent lavishl.. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 5351775 | An average man doesn't do this, though. The world is never a mystery for him, and when he arrives at old age he is convinced he has nothing more to live for. An old man has not exhausted the world. He has exhausted only what people do. But in his stupid confusion he believes that the world has no more mysteries for him. What a wretched price to pay for our shields! | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| bbfeeed | 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 more than you do. Words are tremendously powerful and important and are the magical property of whoever has them." | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 50745cf | he defined stalking as the art of using behavior in novel ways for specific purposes. He said that normal human behavior in the world of everyday life was routine. Any behavior that broke from routine caused an unusual effect on our total being. That unusual effect was what sorcerers sought, because it was cumulative. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 4abf2c1 | sushchestvuet mnozhestvo veshchei, sposobnykh svesti s uma, v osobennosti esli u tebia net reshimosti, net ustremlennosti, neobkhodimoi dlia obucheniia; no esli namerenie cheloveka nepokolebimo, to nikakie emotsii ne mogut byt' prepiatstviem, potomu chto on sposoben derzhat' ikh v uzde. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| d002044 | Ia nikogda ni na kogo ne serzhus'. Ni odin chelovek ne mozhet sdelat' nichego takogo, chto zasluzhivalo by takoi moei reaktsii. Na liudei serdish'sia, kogda chuvstvuesh', chto ikh postupki vazhny. Nichego podobnogo ia davno ne chuvstvuiu. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 98732a9 | Ty, v obshchem, chelovek ser'eznyi, tol'ko tvoia ser'eznost' napravlena na to, chto tebia zanimaet, a ne na to, chto dostoino vnimaniia. Ty slishkom zaniat soboi. V etom vsia beda. Otsiuda tvoia uzhasnaia ustalost'. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 59d6d1f | Nuzhno iskat' i videt' chudesa, kotorykh polno vokrug tebia. Ty umresh' ot ustalosti, ne interesuias' nichem, krome sebia samogo; imenno ot etoi ustalosti ty glukh i slep ko vsemu ostal'nomu. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| b133514 | Nauchivshis' videt', chelovek obnaruzhivaet, chto odinok v mire. Bol'she net nikogo i nichego, krome toi gluposti, o kotoroi my govorim, | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| fcb423a | Que cada uno de tus actos sea tu ultima batalla sobre la tierra | inspirational-life journey | Carlos Castaneda | |
| 3886f3d | Snachala my uchimsia obo vsem dumat', -- skazal on. -- A potom priuchaem glaza smotret' na to, o chem dumaem. Chelovek smotrit na sebia i dumaet, chto on ochen' vazhen. I nachinaet chuvstvovat' sebia vazhnym. No potom, nauchivshis' videt', on osoznaet, chto ne mozhet bol'she dumat' o tom, na chto smotrit. A kogda on perestaet dumat' o tom, na chto smotrit, vse stanovitsia ne vazhnym. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| ee7bbd0 | Self-pity is the real enemy and the source of man's misery. Without a degree of pity for himself, man could not afford to be as self-important as he is. However, once the force of self-importance is engaged, it develops its own momentum. And it is this seemingly independent nature of self-importance which gives it its fake sense of worth. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 9a68813 | Zhelanie -- vot chto zastavliaet nas stradat', no, kak tol'ko my nauchimsia unichtozhat' svoi zhelaniia, liubaia poluchennaia nami meloch' prevratitsia v bestsennyi dar. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 42324ce | chelovek znaniia zhivet deistviem, a ne mysl'iu o deistvii. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| ee2a7cf | chelovek znaniia zhivet deistviem, a ne mysl'iu o deistvii. On vybiraet put' serdtsa i sleduet po etomu puti. Kogda on smotrit, on raduetsia i smeetsia; kogda on vidit, on znaet. On znaet, chto zhizn' ego zakonchitsia ochen' skoro; on znaet, chto on, kak liuboi drugoi, ne idet nikuda; i on znaet, chto vse ravnoznachno. U nego net ni chesti, ni dostoinstva, ni sem'i, ni imeni, ni rodiny. Est' tol'ko zhizn', kotoruiu nuzhno prozhit'. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
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| 17f99c9 | put' -- eto tol'ko put'; esli ty chuvstvuesh', chto on tebe ne po dushe, ty dolzhen ostavit' ego liuboi tsenoi. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| c068d78 | Ia zadam etot vopros tebe: imeet li tvoi put' serdtse? Vse puti odinakovy: oni vedut v nikuda. Oni vedut cherez kusty ili v kusty. Ia mogu skazat', chto v svoei zhizni proshel dlinnye-dlinnye puti, no ia ne nakhozhus' nigde. Takov smysl voprosa, kotoryi zadal moi benefaktor. Est' li u etogo puti serdtse? Esli est', to eto khoroshii put'; esli net, to ot nego nikakogo tolku. Oba puti vedut v nikuda, no u odnogo est' serdtse, a u drugogo -- n.. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| a1e6cd8 | V mire, gde za kazhdym okhotitsia smert', ne mozhet byt' malen'kikh ili bol'shikh reshenii. Zdes' est' lish' resheniia, kotorye my prinimaem pered litsom svoei neminuemoi smerti. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 7f39dbe | Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out. | Alcoholic beverages | ||
| 31362ba | He said that I was a man. And like any man I deserved everything that was a man's lot--joy, pain, sadness and struggle--and that the nature of one's acts was unimportant as long as one acted as a warrior. Lowering his voice to almost a whisper, he said that if I really felt that my spirit was distorted I should simply fix it--purge it, make it perfect--because there was no other task in our entire lives which was more worthwhile. Not to fix.. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| cdbdcbc | Bessmyslennaia zhertva, pustaia trata vremeni -- zhit', chtoby pitat'sia, i pitat'sia radi zhizni, i snova zhit', chtoby pitat'sia, i tak -- do samoi smerti. Razvlecheniia, pridumannye liud'mi, kak by oni pri etom ni izoshchrialis', -- vsego lish' zhalkie potugi zabyt'sia, ne vykhodia za predely porochnogo kruga -- pitat'sia, chtoby zhit', i zhit', chtoby pitat'sia... | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 2ebe38c | Mir takoi-to i takoi-to potomu, chto my skazali sebe, chto on takoi-to i takoi-to. Esli my perestanem govorit' sebe, chto on takoi, to on perestanet byt' takim. Ia ne dumaiu, chto ty v etot moment gotov k takomu vnezapnomu udaru, poetomu ty dolzhen perestat' sozdavat' mir. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| b6d32b5 | Don Juan had said that any habit was, in essence, a "doing," and that a doing needed all its parts in order to function. If some parts were missing, a doing was disassembled. By doing, he meant any coherent and meaningful series of actions. In other words, a habit needed all its component actions in order to be a live activity. La Gorda then described how she had stalked her own weakness of eating excessively. She said that the Nagual had s.. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 5cc6385 | Well, as he brews, so shall he drink. | Alcoholic beverages | ||
| 2430d97 | In a field like philosophy, where understanding involves not so much the reception of knowledge but rather a transformation of the receiver itself, so that the receiver, which is to say the student, can generate the knowledge for him- or herself, then the physical presence of the teacher is essential. | Rebecca Goldstein | ||
| c88a0ad | If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger that we will become the tool of our tools, Plato said, which I thought was a very astute observation, especially considering how little it turned out that he actually knew about Google or really anything about the Internet. I | Rebecca Goldstein | ||
| 203ffb1 | Like mathematics and music and cosmology and philosophy, poetry, too, can "infinitize" us, granting us what immortality there is to be had in this mortal life. And all those who vibrate in harmony to language that itself vibrates to the harmonies of the infinite are entitled to inclusion among the "small group of people." | Rebecca Goldstein | ||
| 9be633c | Quite often we are led to aporia, an impasse, unable to proceed a step further. Socrates is almost always there, but even he is only a supporting character. The starring role is given to the philosophical question. It is the philosophical question that is supposed to take center stage, cracking us open to an entirely new variety of experience. | openness | Rebecca Goldstein | |
| 6706f77 | Let those that merely talk and never think,That live in the wild anarchy of drink. | Alcoholic beverages | ||
| 533b8d2 | And I wish his soul in heaven may dwell,Who first invented this leathern bottel! | Alcoholic beverages | ||
| 7bcb2e9 | Richard Nixon had made a fatal error in ignoring the politico-meteorological dimension when he announced the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia on April 30, 1970. The invasion of Laos, on the other hand, happened in February 1971, and the campuses were quiet. Who wants to stage a walkout in February? | protest war weather | Rebecca Goldstein | |
| a196713 | Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don't see it, because we see with it. | Rebecca Goldstein | ||
| 91f65c8 | So did he answer you? I finally had to ask her after a considerable pause, accompanied by the tapping of her fingernails. (illustration credit ill.3) Not really, she said. I'm not sure giving answers is in his bag of tricks. He seems to be more about messing with your mind so that you can't stop thinking about his questions. And if he thinks I can afford to keep stepping out of time like this, with my schedule, then, well, he's just way off.. | Rebecca Goldstein | ||
| 191ce54 | Since physics is poetry, then poetry is physics, he propounded. | Rebecca Goldstein | ||
| e4118fa | The opposite of a plain truth, Neils Bohr liked to repeat, is a plain falsehood. But the opposite of a deep truth is another deep truth. | Rebecca Goldstein | ||
| 7cd39a2 | It was intolerable what lay hidden within another, intolerable tat you could not divide one person into another with no remainder. | Rebecca Goldstein | ||
| cd4b3d6 | In fact, the answers that religion, as we have come to know it, provides to the question of human worth have played so dominant a role in the preceding centuries that believers often cannot conceive how non-believers can muster sufficient commitment to their own lives to get out of bed each morning, let alone the ethical wherewithal to regard others as deserving of moral regard. Once one "comes out" as an atheist, these are the inquisitions.. | Rebecca Goldstein | ||
| 71f9e2a | the recent novel by his wife Rebecca Goldstein, entitled 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, subtitled A Work of Fiction). The | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| a98d2a9 | I)n order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. (p. 158) | conclusion refute | Rebecca Goldstein | |
| c78c273 | And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly gifted Hippasus, discovered irrational numbers21 that he sent the poor fellow out on a raft to drown, initiating a venerable tradition of professors mistreating their graduate students. | Rebecca Goldstein |