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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.

Dan Millman

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.

Tags: faith, inspirational, leanring, life, wisdom

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.

Dan Millman

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.

About Author
Daniel Jay Millman (born February 22, 1946) is an American author and lecturer in the personal development field. He is best-known for the movie Peaceful Warrior, which is based on his own life and taken from one of his books.

If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

Dan Millman

If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

Understanding is the one-dimensional comprehension of the intellect. It leads to knowledge. Realization is three-dimensional — a simultaneous comprehension of head, heart, and instinct. It comes only...

Dan Millman

Understanding is the one-dimensional comprehension of the intellect. It leads to knowledge. Realization is three-dimensional — a simultaneous comprehension of head, heart, and instinct. It comes only...

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.

Dan Millman

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.

To really help people, you first need to understand them—but first understand yourself, prepare yourself; develop the clarity, the courage, and the sensitivity to exert the right leverage, in the righ...

Dan Millman

To really help people, you first need to understand them—but first understand yourself, prepare yourself; develop the clarity, the courage, and the sensitivity to exert the right leverage, in the righ...

I’d better redefine some terms for you. ‘Mind’ is one of those slippery terms like ‘love.’ The proper definition depends on your state of consciousness. Look at it this way: You have a brain that dire...

Dan Millman

I’d better redefine some terms for you. ‘Mind’ is one of those slippery terms like ‘love.’ The proper definition depends on your state of consciousness. Look at it this way: You have a brain that dire...

What is that yellow stuff in the bottle, Soc? Urine, with a few herbs. Urine! I said, pulling my leg away from him in disgust. Don’t be silly, he said, grabbing my leg and pulling it back. Urine is a...

Dan Millman

What is that yellow stuff in the bottle, Soc? Urine, with a few herbs. Urine! I said, pulling my leg away from him in disgust. Don’t be silly, he said, grabbing my leg and pulling it back. Urine is a...

Better never begin; once begun, better finish.

Dan Millman

Better never begin; once begun, better finish.

Urges do not matter; only actions do. A warrior is as a warrior does. At

Dan Millman

Urges do not matter; only actions do. A warrior is as a warrior does. At

You've become bored to things because they exist only as names to you. The dry concepts of mind obscure your direct perception.

Dan Millman

You've become bored to things because they exist only as names to you. The dry concepts of mind obscure your direct perception.

You have to ‘lose your mind’ before you can come to your senses.

Dan Millman

You have to ‘lose your mind’ before you can come to your senses.

Experts devote their life to training. Masters devote their training to life.

Dan Millman

Experts devote their life to training. Masters devote their training to life.

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.

Dan Millman

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.

Tags: get, heart, pain, still, suffer, want

Yet acting without understanding may create even more problems. Sometimes you need to simply relax into life, and to trust.

Dan Millman

Yet acting without understanding may create even more problems. Sometimes you need to simply relax into life, and to trust.

Meditating an action is different from doing it. To do, there is a doer, a self-conscious ‘someone’ performing. But when you meditate an action, you’ve already released attachment to outcomes. There’s...

Dan Millman

Meditating an action is different from doing it. To do, there is a doer, a self-conscious ‘someone’ performing. But when you meditate an action, you’ve already released attachment to outcomes. There’s...

What good to conquer an enemy in battle, only to be vanquished by hunger or cold?

Dan Millman

What good to conquer an enemy in battle, only to be vanquished by hunger or cold?

Think of death as a transformation — a bit more radical than puberty, but nothing to get particularly upset about.

Dan Millman

Think of death as a transformation — a bit more radical than puberty, but nothing to get particularly upset about.

Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors. — Aunguttara Nikaya

Dan Millman

Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors. — Aunguttara Nikaya

My ignorance is based on this understanding. Your understanding is based on ignorance. This is why I am a humorous fool, and you are a serious jackass.

Dan Millman

My ignorance is based on this understanding. Your understanding is based on ignorance. This is why I am a humorous fool, and you are a serious jackass.