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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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So trust the process of your life unfolding, and know with certainty, through the peaks and valleys of your journey, that your soul rests safe and secure in the arms of God.
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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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In the real world, those of us who are most productive, successful, and satisfied focus not on fixing feelings or manipulating thoughts, but on what needs to be done-and then doing it-no matter what thoughts or feelings arise.
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In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.
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A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.When we feel stuck, going nowhere -- even starting to slipbackward -- we may actually be backing up to get a runningstart.
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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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Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.
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Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives.
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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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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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Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.
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Live in the Moment, Empty Your Mind of the Trash Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge
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Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences....But the lessons of experience are hidden.
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Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop.
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If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.
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As a peaceful warrior, I would choose when, where and how I would behave. With that commitment, I began to live the life of a warrior.
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As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water. Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?
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Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.
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Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.
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