Quotes from Dan Millman

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.

his mind creates both his disappointments and his — joys.

master…Fear

the peaceful warrior's greatest battles don't lie in the external world, but within us. These inner hurdles generate most of the obstacles and difficulties we encounter in daily life. They carry greater danger than outer problems, because they slip, unseen and unnoticed, into our every endeavor.

First mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers. Than mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers. Finally mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers.

Ki ruházta rád a felelÅ'sséget? Ki adott bölcsességet, hogy tudd, kinek kell élnie, és kinek kell meghalnia, és milyen úton-módon? Ki vagy te, hogy tudd, mi jár Isten fejében?

What is to give light must endure burning. VIKTOR FRANKL

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.

Per avere una morte benedetta, bisogna imparare a vivere. Per avere una vita benedetta, bisogna imparare a morire.

The rain was a perfectly lawful display of nature. Your 'upset' at the ruined picnic and your 'happiness' when the sun reappeared were the product of your thoughts. They had nothing to do with the actual events. Haven't you been 'unhappy' at celebrations for example? It is obvious then that your mind, not other people or your surroundings, is the source of your moods. That is the first lesson.

Finally, I realized the process of real meditation—to expand awareness, to direct attention, to ultimately surrender to the light of consciousness.

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it

only then do I realize that the jewel had always been with in me, even then and that the light had always shinned, only my eyes were closed

The forest didn't really change much at night, but I did.

from the path of expertise, or refining skills, to the path of mastery, the moment I realized the connection between training and life.

The point of the preceding list of factors that generate emotions is that you cannot, and need not, analyze or understand all the factors that produce your emotional peaks or valleys. It's enough to know that the interaction of mind and circumstance contributes to your emotional lows and highs.

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

This magical night seemed unreal, or rather, as real as a dream.

one way most of us deal with feelings is to ignore them or pretend they don't exist—to deny them. Then, as the pressure builds, we occasionally experience emotional episodes such as arguments or explosions (and we may later berate ourselves for having "lost control").

have shown you the way of the peaceful warrior, not the way to the peaceful warrior. As long as you tread the way, you are a warrior.

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.")

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 respected elixir in the ancient healing traditions.

Now," she said. "Look at the tree again and create this expectation: 'I can hit the tree with ease.'" So I said it again---"I can hit the tree with ease." I felt a line of energy stretching from me to the tree and I knew the stone would follow that line to it's target....I took a breath and threw the stone. I saw it fly, attracted to the tree like a magnet. The stone hit the tree dead center.

A helpful rainsquall washed the papaya juice from my face and hands and chest; then the sun dried me, and the wind blow-dried my hair and beard.