Dan Millman Quotes

• Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

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  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.267, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation

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• Remember that life develops what it demands - the toughest path creates the strongest warrior. Pray not for a lighter load, but for stronger shoulders.

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  Dan Millman (2000). “Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Life's Tough Questions”, p.132, New World Library

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• Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

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  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.81, H J Kramer

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• Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

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  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them...your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world.

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• If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of Life, it is that there may be innumerable techniques or methods one can learn (from the Eastern spiritual cultures and from the Western psychological tradition), but that above and beyond all these technologies waits the school of everyday life.

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• Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

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• Masters of one art have mastered all because they have mastered themselves. With dominion over both mind and muscle, they demonstrate power, serenity, and spirit. They not only have talent for their sport, they have an expanded capacity for life. The experts shine in the competitive arena; the masters shine everywhere.

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  Dan Millman (2010). “Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life”, p.165, New World Library

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• In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.

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• To be authentic literally means to be your own author.

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• My life has been less like a light switch suddenly turning on, and more like a dimmer switch slowly turned up, over time, more in some moments than others.

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• The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.

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• As a peaceful warrior, I would choose when, where and how I would behave. With that commitment, I began to live the life of a warrior.

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  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.172, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

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  Dan Millman (2010). “Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions”, p.75, New World Library

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• Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?

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• Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.

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  Dan Millman (2010). “Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life”, p.53, New World Library

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• Peaceful warriors have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water clears. They remain unmoving until the right time, so the right action arises by itself. They do not seek fulfillment, but wait with open arms to welcome all things.

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  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.4, H J Kramer

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• All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier, no more fullfilled, for all my achievements. Finally I saw through the clouds I saw that I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. All my life i had been busy seeking happiness, but never finding it or sustaining it.

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• Sports and sex and movies are not inherently bad - But for you they're addictions, not enjoyments. You use them to distract you from what you know you should do. Break free!

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• We discover our character through decisions under pressure.

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• Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.

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• As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?

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  Dan Millman (2010). “Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions”, p.124, New World Library

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• You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

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• Wisdom is the use of knowledge

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• When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath and come back to here and now.

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  Dan Millman (2001). “The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work”, p.40, H J Kramer

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• Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

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  Dan Millman (2004). “Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior”, p.70, H J Kramer

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• I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

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• Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.

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• The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.

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