“Impeccability is all that counts. A sorcerer lives an impeccable (flawless) life, and that seems to beckon the solution. Why? No one knows.
Don Juan remained quiet for a moment. And then, as if I had voiced it, he commented on a thought I was having. I was thinking that impeccability always made me think of religious morality.
‘Impeccability, as I have told you so many times, is not morality,’ he said, ‘It only resembles morality.
Impeccability is simply the best use of our energy level. Naturally, it calls for frugality, thoughtfulness, simplicity, innocence; and above all, it calls for lack of self-importance (self-importance is merely self-pity in disguise.)
All this makes it sound like a manual for monastic life, but it isn’t. The only thi
ng that stores energy for us is our impeccability. Impeccability must be wrapped in awareness.’ ”
The Power Of Silence, Carlos Castaneda, p. 151, 227-228
