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Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf
Dan Millman
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Dan Millman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 22
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Daniel Jay Millman
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A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.
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Live with a peaceful heart cultivate a warrior's spirit.
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As we stop monitoring others' opinions, we connect with our heart's wisdom.
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The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.
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Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied that we have only to look, listen, and trust the love and wisdom of the Universal Spirit working through us all.
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Bad people don't go to hell, they are already there.
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The world's a puzzle no need to make sense out of it. - Socrates
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You are rich if you have enough money to satisfy all your desires. So there are two ways to be rich: you earn, inherit, borrow, beg, or steal enough money to meet all your desires or you cultivate a simple lifestyle of few desires that way you always have enough money.
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Peaceful warriors have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water clears. They remain unmoving until the right time, so the right action arises by itself. They do not seek fulfillment, but wait with open arms to welcome all things.
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May you find grace as you surrender to life. May you find happiness, as you stop seeking it. May you come to trust these laws and inherit the wisdom of the Earth. May you reconnect with the heart of nature and feel the blessings of Spirit.
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Better never begin once begun, better finish.
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We are both burdened and blessed by the great responsibility of the will - the power of choice. Our future is determined, in large part, by the choices we make now. We cannot always control our circumstances, but we can and do choose our response to whatever arises. Reclaiming the power of choice, we find the courage to live fully in the world.
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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.
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A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does
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. . . Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.
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Wisdom is the use of knowledge
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Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.
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Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.
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I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.
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If you don't get what you want, you suffer if you get what you don't want, you suffer even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.
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