Quote: Carlos Castaneda & Don Juan Matus on Challenge

“Warrior-travelers don’t complain, they take everything that infinity hands them as a challenge.  A challenge is a challenge.  It isn’t personal.  It cannot be taken as a curse or a blessing.  A warrior-traveler either wins the challenge or the challenge demolishes him.  It’s more exciting to win, so win.!” -  Don Juan Matus,

11 Rules of Making Relationships Between Men and Women Work By Theun Mares

RULE 1: TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR HAVING THIS PERSON IN YOUR LIFE. It takes two to tango, so stop trying to play the blame game. See your own role in, and your own contribution to, what is happening in your relationship (romantic, professional, etc.) RULE 2: DON’T TREAT THE OTHER PERSON IN YOUR LIFE ANY DIFFERENTLY [...]

Choosing Possibilities

We can never avoid consequences. When there is a snake on the road, and we don’t watch where we’re walking, we will feel the pain of it’s bite when we step on it. I often see that snake, but deny it’s existence, only to step on it and wonder why I didn’t just avoid it. [...]

A Challenge is a Challenge

“Warrior-travelers don’t complain, they take everything that infinity hands them as a challenge.  A challenge is a challenge.  It isn’t personal.  It cannot be taken as a curse or a blessing.  A warrior-traveler either wins the challenge or the challenge demolishes him.  It’s more exciting to win, so win.!” -  Don Juan Matus, from The [...]

The Condition of a Warrior

“The average man is aware of everything only when he thinks he should be; the condition of a warrior, however, is to be aware of everything at all times.” – Don Juan Matus, from Tales of Power, by Carlos Castaneda

The Discipline of a Warrior

A Warrior cuts out all unnecessary acts; in this way he saves his personal power.   An apprentice starts off with the certainty that only by disciplining himself into becoming an impeccable warrior can he live his life without regrets, but by the time he has achieved warriorship,he knows beyond all controversy that impeccability of [...]

The Terms of the Spirit

Any apprentice who approaches the Warrior’s Path with the sure knowledge that he has no option other than to fight for total transformation will succeed, but any apprentice who approaches the Warrior’s Path on this own terms, is doomed to failure.  We cannot impose conditions upon the Spirit; we either follow unconditionally as an act [...]

The Dance of the Warrior

The impeccable Warrior does in fact dance in the most real sense of the word.  In this dance intelligence is his music, emotion is the colour of his costume, carefully cut to portray his intent.  Fate itself guides the warrior in choreographing those steps which enable him to move his assemblage point, so as to [...]

A Warrior’s Best Advisor: Death

“It is the destiny of all of life to seek out knowledge and to have power, bu there is absolutely no way any of us can have power other that to claim it.  The only way in which we can claim our power is for us to be presented with challenges which we have to [...]

“Self-mastery involves recognizing what we are not responsible for—the thoughts that enter our mind and flow out, and the emotions that pass like the weather—and what we are responsible for, which is our behavior. My view of self-mastery focuses on acting with kindness whether or not we’re in the mood, based on three principles: Accept [...]