Top 100 Dan Millman Quotes
#1. When the mind is creating troubles, it's time to come back to the body and the serenity of the present moment.
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#2. Death is not sad; the sad thing is that most people don't really live at all.
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#3. People from all walks of life share an innate drive for meaning, direction, and purpose. This drive to understand our life purpose seems as important to our psychological growth as eating is to our biological survival.
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#4. I am a warrior! he snapped. Beyond that, who I am depends on who you want me to be.
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#5. You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.
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#6. Your sense of worth or deservedness shapes your life by creating tendencies. If you feel worthy and deserving, you tend to make productive choices. ("The world is my oyster.") If you feel unworthy and undeserving, you tend to make destructive or limiting choices. ("Beggars can't be choosers.")
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#7. No need to feel brave or confident; just behave that way.
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#8. Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.
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#9. The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.
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#10. 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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#11. I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.
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#12. The conventions of language reveal the ways we see the world.
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#13. To be authentic literally means to be your own author.
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#14. Think of death as a transformation - a bit more radical than puberty, but nothing to get particularly upset about.
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#15. The universe does not judge us; it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. Compassion is the recognition that we are each doing the best we can within the limits of our current beliefs and capacities.
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#16. The earth isn't solid. It is made of molecules and atoms, tiny universes filled with space. It is a place of mystery, light, and magic, if you only open your eyes.
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#17. Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.
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#18. Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency - a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life.
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#19. You Don't need a reason to be happy. If you do that reason can be taken away.
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#20. Everyone everywhere live[s] a confused, bitter search. Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner - a corner they never turned. And the source of it all [is] the human mind.
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#21. Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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#22. We all know that life has ups and downs; you've experienced both. And though you can't always control what happens outside you, you can choose how you will respond. You can treat life as a dance rather than a wrestling match. You can become an active participant rather than a victim of circumstance.
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#23. While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.
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#24. 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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#25. Consciousness is not in the body; the body is in consciousness. And you are that consciousness.
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#26. People love miracle stories and dramatic moments of transcendence or transformation, and may then pursue their own dramatic "awakenings."
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#27. Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf
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#28. When you become fully responisble for your life, you can become fully human; once you become human, you may discover what it mens to be a warrior.
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#29. Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow, signaling the later days of autumn.
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#30. You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.
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#31. Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.' Saying
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#32. Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.
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#33. Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.
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#34. The birth of the mind is the death of the senses
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#35. There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.
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#36. There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.
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#37. Experts devote their life to training. Masters devote their training to life.
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#39. A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does
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#40. Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.
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#41. Life was never meant to be a struggle, just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day. - Stuart Wilde
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#42. Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
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#43. 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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#44. We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
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#45. Windows of opportunity open and then close. By staying in the present, handling what's in front of us, and riding the wave of opportunity when it comes, we follow the natural order of things.
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#46. Energy follows thought; no matter how hard we work or how much we know, we tend to rise to our assumed limits, and no higher.
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#47. Embody what you teach, and teach only what you have embodied.
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#48. 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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#49. Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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#50. The movements of the highest warriors are relaxed and expansive because they fight for a cause larger than themselves. Only by surrendering to God's will does one find victory in battle and serenity in life. Serafim started pacing again, as he did
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#51. Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied that we have only to look, listen, and trust the love and wisdom of the Universal Spirit working through us all.
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#52. You will fail many times, but in failing you will learn , and in learning you will find your way.
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#53. There are no mistakes, only lessons.
If you don't learn the lesson the first time, they get harder.
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#54. A Zen student asked his roshi the most important element of Zen.The roshi replied, "Attention." "Yes, thank you," the student replied. "But can you tell me the second most important element?"And the roshi replied, "Attention."
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#55. Here and now ... breathe and relax ... in battle and in life
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#56. Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
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#57. You've become bored to things because they exist only as names to you. The dry concepts of mind obscure your direct perception.
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#58. As you manage your money, you manage your life.
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#59. Your body is malleable; you can sculpt it over time with daily habits of diet and exercise. The law of accommodation reminds us that the body may change slowly, but it will change.
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#60. Secret's value is not in what you know, but in what you do.
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#61. Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.
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#62. Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other.
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#63. Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.
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#64. An overnight success usually takes about ten years. - Anonymous
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#65. When you lose your mind, you'll come to your senses.
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#66. Life is about refinement, not perfection. And you still have refining to do.
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#67. If we lose touch with our heart's wisdom, then no method avails; if we love, then nothing else is necessary.
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#68. Dream big. Start small and then connect the dots
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#69. Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation
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#70. Freedom from mental distraction equals power.
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#71. When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath and come back to here and now.
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#72. It feels nice to be comfortable, but if we're comfortable all the time, we miss out on the chance to stretch and grow.
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#73. Under the weight of my growing self-knowledge, my self-image was sinking fast.
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#74. Everything you need to know is within you. Listen. Feel. Trust the body's wisdom.
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#75. The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God. - Meister Eckehart
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#76. Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.
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#77. Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.
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#78. As we stop monitoring others' opinions, we connect with our heart's wisdom.
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#79. Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy.
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#80. A fool is 'happy' when his cravings are satisfied. A warrior is happy without reason. That's what makes happiness the ultimate discipline
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#81. You get no more and no less than what you believe you deserve.
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#82. The secret of success in life: Prepare for opportunity when it comes. - Benjamin Disraeli
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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. You have to lose your mind in order to regain your senses.
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#86. It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.
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#87. Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
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#88. The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.
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#89. Stop being so proud of mediocrity; show some spirit!
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#90. 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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#91. It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.
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#92. Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.
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#93. Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.
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#94. So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If you won't be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.
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#95. First of all," said Serafim, "there are no advanced skills; there is only skillful movement.
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#96. Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.
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#97. Better never begin; once begun, better finish.
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#98. Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life.
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#99. Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences ... But the lessons of experience are hidden.
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#100. So trust the process of your life unfolding, and know with certainty, through the peaks and valleys of your journey, that your soul rests safe and secure in the arms of God.
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