While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting. Dan Millman More Quotes by Dan Millman More Quotes From Dan Millman Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey. Dan Millman journey success sports As you manage your money, you manage your life. Dan Millman manage While you fear missing a meal, you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat. Dan Millman meals missing ...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you. Dan Millman race mind happens The light will disturb us when we're comfortable, and comfort us when we're disturbed. We turn to spirit for help when our foundations are shaking only to find out that it is spirit who is shaking them! Dan Millman foundation yoga light Bad people don't go to hell, they are already there. Dan Millman go-to-hell hell people When you lose your mind, you'll come to your senses. Dan Millman senses loses mind Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act. Dan Millman stronger matter thinking When running up a hill, it is all right to give up as many times as you wish-as long as your feet keep on moving. Dan Millman giving-up running moving Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals. Dan Millman effort focus goal If we lose touch with our heart's wisdom, then no method avails; if we love, then nothing else is necessary. Dan Millman method ifs heart When we align our lives with spiritual laws, challenges remain, but we can approach them with arms open wide, ready to dance. Dan Millman spiritual challenges law Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth. Dan Millman body realization mind All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier, no more fullfilled, for all my achievements. Finally I saw through the clouds I saw that I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. All my life i had been busy seeking happiness, but never finding it or sustaining it. Dan Millman enjoy-life clouds years you can live a whole life time never being awake. Dan Millman peaceful-warrior whole-life awake Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for our automobile wreck. The problem in fear is our response - the way we treat animals or insects that frighten us. . . . Fear is also the universal scapegoat we blame when we take flight from intimacy or shrink up inside ourselves in a thousand little ways. Dan Millman garden fear animal People love miracle stories and dramatic moments of transcendence or transformation, and may then pursue their own dramatic "awakenings." Dan Millman miracle stories people Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws of Spirit. But now I'm happy to share these four purposes of life that lend meaning and direction to anyone's life, especially those in transition, going through changes." Dan Millman spiritual sports art Sometimes I look back and think, "How did I write that? The book is smarter than I am!" I have never written strategically, but rather, followed the dictates of my muse. Dan Millman writing book thinking If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of Life, it is that there may be innumerable techniques or methods one can learn (from the Eastern spiritual cultures and from the Western psychological tradition), but that above and beyond all these technologies waits the school of everyday life. Dan Millman warrior spiritual school
