Quotes from Dan Millman

You will fail many times, but in failing you will learn , and in learning you will find your way.

Learning is a process of refining errors to the point where they no longer prevent our desired goal.

Under the weight of my growing self-knowledge, my self-image was sinking fast.

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

How do you know you haven't been asleep your whole life? How do you know you're not asleep right now?

Stop being so proud of mediocrity; show some spirit!

Happy people create happiness; it's the most contagious energy on Earth. Fearful, sad, angry, or miserable people only tend to spread these same qualities, even if working in the name of "social conscience.

Ignorance, as well as wisdom, is handed down from one generation to the next like a precious heirloom.

Socrates, how do I stop my thoughts, my mind - other than by developing a sense of humor? -First you need to understand where your thoughts come from, how they arise in the first place. For example, you have a cold now; Its physical symptoms tell you when your body needs to rebalance itself, to restore its proper relationship with sunlight, fresh air, simple food. Just so, Stressful thoughts reflect a conflict with reality. Stress happens when the mind resists what is.

a story Serafim had told about a man who was always tired and who prayed each day for more energy. His prayers were never answered, until one day, in a fit of despair, he cried, "Please, oh, Lord, fill me with energy!" And God answered, "I'm always filling you, but you keep leaking!

In life, stress happens when you resist... No matter what comes your way, if you take a rigid position, you experience pain. Never oppose force with force. Instead, absorb it and use it... Yielding can overcome even a superior force.

Softness triumphs over hardness, gentleness over strength. The flexible is superior over the immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation. LAO-TZU

Act happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

He was a thinker, but also a man of action.

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

Il mondo là fuori, disse indicando l'orizzonte, è una scuola, Dan. La vita è l'unico , vero insegnante. Ci offre molte esperienze, ma se l'esperienza da sola portasse saggezza e realizzazione, gli anziani sarebbero tutti felici, sarebbero tutti maestri illuminati. Bisogna scoprire le lezioni nascoste nelle esperienze.

And so I awoke to reality, free of any meaning or any search. What could there possibly be to search for? All of Soc's words had come alive with my death. This was the paradox of it all, the humor of it all, and the great change. All searches, all achievements, all goals, were equally enjoyable, and equally unnecessary.

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

The world was peopled with minds, whirling faster than any wind, in search of distraction and escape from the predicament of change, the dilemma of life and death — seeking purpose, security, enjoyment, trying to make sense of the mystery. Everyone everywhere lived a confused, bitter search. Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner — a corner they never turned.

Stress happens when the mind resists what is. Most of us tend to either push or resist the river of our lives, to fight circumstance rather than make use of things as they are. Resistance creates turbulence, which you feel as physical, mental, and emotional tension. Tension is a subtle pain, which — like any pain — signals that something is amiss. When we are out of natural balance, we create tension; by listening to our body, we can take responsibility for releasing it.

I closed my eyes to meditate, but realized that I was always meditating now, with my eyes wide open.

I don't even know if the sun will rise or whether I'll wake up in the morning. I don't know if God will grant me my next breath. So I choose to live on faith rather than knowledge—and accept whatever comes, welcome or not, bitter or sweet—all of it, a gift from God.

What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen. HENRY DAVID THOREAU

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 no 'you' left to do it. In forgetting yourself, you become what you do, so your action is free, spontaneous, without ambition, inhibition, or fear.