Toltec Quotes

“What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You are dreaming right now in this moment. You are dreaming with the brain awake.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz

“No one is responsible for your emotional reactions except you. Others can say and do anything they like but what happens inside you is only the result of what you are thinking and feeling.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.

“The voice that says, “That’s the way I am,” is the voice of knowledge. It’s the voice of the liar living in the Tree of Knowledge in your head. The Toltec consider it a mental disease that is highly contagious because it’s transmitted from human to human through knowledge. The symptoms of the disease are fear, anger, hatred, sadness, jealousy, conflict, and separation between humans. Again, these lies are controlling the dream of our life. I think this is obvious.”
― Miguel Ruiz

“Only after the warrior has brought about the ninety degree shift can he in all honesty accept the title of Toltec. Thus the career of true-blooded Toltecs is short by any standard, and yet it is time enough in which to rejoice in their full power. In having chosen to walk the path of freedom warriors know that they cannot defeat old age, but only fight it off impeccably until death taps them.”
― Théun Mares, Cry of the Eagle: The Toltec Teachings Volume 2

“Don Juan said that the sorcerers of antiquity, the inventors of the recapitulation, viewed breathing as a magical, life-giving act and used it, accordingly, as a magical vehicle; the exhalation, to eject the foreign energy left in them during the interaction being recapitulated and the inhalation to pull back the energy that they themselves left behind during the interaction.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming

“Bir savaşçı farkındalığa sahiptir. Bu çok önemlidir. Savaşta olduğumuz için zihnimizin disipline ihtiyaç duyduğunun da farkında olur. Bu bir askerin disiplini değil, bir savaşçının disiplini olmalıdır. Asker disiplininde dışarıdan birileri bize ne yapmamız gerektiğini söyler, savaşçı disiplini ne olursa olsun kendimiz olmayı gerektirir.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

“The second attention is available to all of us, but, by willfully holding on to our half-cocked rationality, some of us more fiercely than others, keep the second attention at arm’s length.

His idea was that dreaming brings down the barriers that surround and insulate the second attention.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming

“Seeing children's assemblage points constantly fluttering, as if moved by tremors, changing their place with ease, the old sorcerers came to the conclusion that the assemblage points habitual location is not innate but brought about by habituation.

Seeing also that only in adults is it fixed on one spot, they surmised that the specific location of the assemblage point fosters a specific way of perceiving.

Through usage, this specific way of perceiving becomes a system of interpreting sensory data.

Since we are drafted into that system by being born into it, from the moment of our birth we imperatively strive to adjust our perceiving to conform to the demands of this system, a system that rules us for life.

Consequently, the old sorcerers were thoroughly right in believing that the act of countermanding it and perceiving energy directly is what transforms a person into a sorcerer.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming

“Until the energy body is complete and mature, it is self-absorbed. It can't get free from the compulsion to be absorbed by everything.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming

“In the view of sorcerers,
the universe is constructed in layers, which the energy body can cross.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming