WARRIOR - a man of knowledge.

What's really important - it is that you know exactly why you want it. There is only one choice: either give up and say goodbye to his dream, or reach their goals. Your earnest focused on what you do, and not what stóit attention. You are too busy. That's the trouble. From your terrible fatigue. We must look up and see the miracles that are full around you.

You will die from exhaustion, not interested in anything other than himself; you are tired of this deaf and blind to everything else.

Learning through talk a waste of time.

He asked me if I remembered how trying to find his place, while wanting to do without the efforts and hoping to get all the information on a plate. So I would never have learned. But, having learned the hard way how difficult it is to find, and most importantly - make sure it's really there, I got a sense of confidence, which can not be obtained any other way.

If it is opened to me, where is this place, I would never have had the confidence, which is the sole criterion of my knowledge as a genuine. This means: The knowledge - force.

The enemies in the way of knowledge

- When a man starts to learn, he will never have a clear idea of ​​the obstacles. Its purpose is vague and illusory; its aspiration is unstable. He expects the reward that will never get, because even unaware of the upcoming trials.

Gradually, he begins to learn - at first slowly, then all successful. And soon it comes in confusion. What he learns is never the same as the fact that he himself drew, and fear grips. Each step - a new task, and the fear the man is experiencing growing steadily and relentlessly.

His goal is a battleground.

- What you need to do to overcome fear?
- The answer is very simple: do not run away. Man must conquer your fear and in spite of it the next step in learning, and another step, and another. He must be completely intimidation, and yet should not stop. That is the law. And the day will come when his first enemy retreats. Man feels confident. His aspiration is growing. Education is no longer a daunting task.

One who has overcome fear, free from it until the end of his days, because instead of fear comes clarity that dispels fear. By this time, people know all their wants and knows what to do with them; he can discover or to take new steps in learning and a sharp clarity pervades everything. One feels that for him there are no secrets.

And so he meets the second enemy: Clarity!

This clarity is so elusive, dispels fear, but it also blinds. It forces the man never to doubt himself. She makes sure that he clearly sees through everything. Yes, it is thanks to the courage and clarity, and will stop at nothing. But all this - confusing: there's something wrong ... If a person succumbs to his imaginary power, then he defeated the enemy, and the second will be in training to stagnate. Everything will be clear for all to him, but he never learned nothing and nowhere will seek.

- What to do to avoid destruction?
- Same with fear: win clarity and use it only to see, and wait patiently, and before each new step carefully weigh all; and above all - know that his clarity is essentially illusory. The only way he can beat his second eternal enemy, and it will be true power. At this point it becomes clear that the power for which he had so long chase finally his. He can do with it whatever he wants. His desire - the law. He sees through everything.

This means that before him the third enemy: Power!

This - the most formidable enemy. And of course, the easiest - just give up; After all, the owner of it is really unbeatable. He is the master, who at first is a calculated risk, and ends that lays down the law, because he - the owner. Here, people rarely notices the third enemy, which has loomed over him. And he does not know that the battle has already been lost. He turned an enemy into a cruel, capricious man.

Man defeated own strength, die, and not really knowing what to do with it. Strength - a burden in his life. Such a person has no control over himself, and can not tell when or how to use his power. Man must come to understand that the force, which he allegedly won, in fact, it does not belong and can not belong to never.

He must establish itself in constant self-control, sober and disinterested using everything he learned. If he is able to see that without self-clarity and force worse illusion, it will reach a point where everything is subordinated to it. He knows when and how to use his power. This will mean that he has won a third of the enemy, and came to the end of his journey in learning.

And here, without warning, it catches up with the last enemy: Old age!

This is the time when people get rid of fear, of unbridled and insatiable clarity, the time when all his power at its disposal, but also the time when they possessed an irresistible desire to relax, lie down, to forget. If he will give him if he will lull tired, then he misses his last fight, and crept up his enemies at once, turning to the old tiny creature. The desire to retreat will eclipse its clarity, negate all his strength and all his knowledge.

A man is defeated only when he left all attempts and renounced itself.

But if people shake off tiredness and live your destiny to the end, then it really can be called a man of knowledge, a little while, if only for the brief moment when he will be able to ward off the latter and invincible enemy. One only this moment of clarity, power, and knowledge is enough.

From the book of Carlos Castaneda "The Teachings of Don Juan"