Travelling On Paths That Have Heart

Inspirational Messages For Your Heart and Soul

29 July 2013

In The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yacqui Way of Knowledge, Carlos Castaneda asks his teacher, “…how do you know when a path has no heart?"

don Juan replies, "Before you embark on it you ask the question:  Does this path have a heart?  If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path...The trouble is nobody asks the question; and when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill him.  At that point very few men can stop to deliberate, and leave the path...A path without a heart is never enjoyable.  You have to work hard even to take it.  On the other hand, a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it."