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*"The phantoms were out there to get me but I wasn't afraid. ...I wanted to get mad...but somehow I couldn't get angry like I used to, so I gave up trying. Then I wanted to get sad...but I couldn't, so I gave up on that too.
*"Suddenly I realized...that there was nothing the phantoms could do to me. ...phantoms lurched out swiftly and tried to make me trip over the precipices, but my will was stronger than they were. They must have sensed that, because they stopped pestering me. After a while they simply stood by my path; from time to time some of them would leap towards me but I stopped them with my will. And then they quit bothering me altogether."

Don Genaro, in Carlos Castaneda's Journey To Ixtlan
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