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By Dalton Roberts
Don’t read Carlos Castaneda unless you want to be slapped around by little Mighty Mouse truths that leap out at you from his pages.
You will seldom understand one the first time it hits you. Then you’ll think, “Yeah, I think I understand that.” Then about the third time it will come alive like a neon sign in your mind that you can’t turn off for days. The longer it flashes, the more you see in the words.
My most recent encounter with one of his Mighty Mouse sentences came with this statement: “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”