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  1. Carlos Castaneda _ Separate Reality:

    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!
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  2. Carlos Castaneda _ Separate Reality:

    By looking at you he meant he welcomes you. He showed you that you need a spirit catcher and a pouch, but not from this area; his bag was from another part of the country. You have three stumbling blocks in your way that make you stop; those were the boulders. And you definitely are going to get your best powers in water canyons and gullies; the ally pointed out the gully to you. The rest of the scene was meant to help you locate the exact place to find him.
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  3. Carlos Castaneda _ Separate Reality:

    I had been reared, perhaps like everyone else, to have a readiness to accept man as an essentially weak and fallible creature.
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  4. Carlos Castaneda _ Separate Reality:

    The only difference between them is that a man who sees controls his folly, while his fellow men can't.
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  5. Carlos Castaneda _ Separate Reality:

    To meet an ally a man must be a spotless warrior or the ally may turn against him and destroy him.
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  6. Carlos Castaneda _ Separate Reality:

    Everything is filled to the brim," he repeated, "and everything is equal. I'm not like your friend who just grew old. When I tell you that nothing matters I don't mean it the way he does. For him, his struggle was not worth his while, because he was defeated; for me there is no victory, or defeat, or emptiness. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal and my struggle was worth my while.
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  7. Carlos Castaneda _ Separate Reality:

    Those fibers join a man to his surroundings;
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  8. Carlos Castaneda _ Separate Reality:

    perceiving the world" entails a process of apprehending whatever presents itself to us. This particular "perceiving" is done with our senses and with our will.
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  9. Carlos Castaneda _ Separate Reality:

    a man of knowledge has no honor, no dignity, no family, no name, no country, but only life to be lived, and under these circumstances his only tie to his fellow men is his controlled folly. Thus
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  10. Carlos Castaneda _ Separate Reality:

    A fine power is always heralded by great pain.
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  11. Carlos Castaneda _ Separate Reality:

    You must wait patiently, knowing that you're waiting, and knowing what you're waiting for. That is the warrior's way. And if it is a matter of fulfilling your promise then you must be aware that you are fulfilling it. Then a time will come when your waiting will be over and you will no longer have to honor your promise.
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  12. Carlos Castaneda _ Separate Reality:

    What makes us unhappy is to want. Yet if we would learn to cut our wants to nothing, the smallest thing we'd get would be a true gift.
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