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Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

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Dan Millman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 22
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Daniel Jay Millman
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...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you.
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Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?
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