Quotes from Dan Millman

You don't worry unless you care. Concern reveals thoughtfulness and sensitivity. Insecurity reflects a desire to do well and to prove yourself. Shyness reminds you that you want to be liked and to make a good impression. Anger indicates passionate involvement or desire to be involved. Depression may indicate a sensitive soul, grieving for the world. Accepting your emotions sometimes means appreciating the positive lessons contained in negative emotions.

The ability to express feelings is an important life skill. But forever expressing upset feelings tends to restimulate them.

To the fish, the sea is air.

As you learn to accept your emotions fully, however, without allowing them to drive or limit your behavior, you'll find it less necessary to change or fix them.

When running up a hill, it's all right to give up…as long as your feet keep moving.

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

Life develops what it demands

lofty dreams in the distant future are a difficult burden to carry. The best goals may be those you can handle in the next week, the next day, the next hour, or the next step; create a process that yields many small successes." "Many

Some of us center our lives around other people's feelings; we try to make them happy. But since you can't control your feelings, how can you possibly fix the feelings of others? The plain truth is that feeling responsible for someone else's unhappiness (or happiness) is simply not realistic

A young child responds freshly to each moment, without plans or expectations. This is a good way to fight…a good way to live.

Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fencesitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation" — he took a deep breath, getting ready for his final condemnation — "is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew!

People have asked me how they can determine when to listen to fear's counsel and when to push through the fear. As a general rule, when the danger is physical, let fear guide you to take care and prepare well or even choose not to take foolish risks. But when the fear is psychological, as in the fear of embarrassment, shame, rejection, and so forth, that is the time to push through

Warriors confront their demons head-on; by doing so, you've dissolved them

It's different," I said. "No," she replied. "You are.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. —Helen Keller

You are learning," Serafim said, "how to think with your body—how to leave your mind and come to your senses.

But energy must flow somewhere," his voice continued. "Where energy meets obstructions, it burns — and if energy builds up beyond what a given individual can tolerate, it demands release. Anger grows into rage, sorrow turns to despair, concern becomes obsession, and physical aches become agony. So energy can also be a curse. Like a river, it can bring life, but untamed it can unleash a raging flood of destruction.

The Way creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom.

As we die from one life into the next... we may also die and be reborn in a single lifetime... and the story, the journey, goes on and on...

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

infant. There was no shame in being seen, no disgrace in being human.

Death is not sad; the sad thing is that most people don't ever really live at all.

When energy is thrown away without purpose or wisdom, you feel an instinctive loss of life, a sense of sorrow.

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