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Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.

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Dan Millman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 22
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Daniel Jay Millman
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Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
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Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf
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In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.
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The seasons do not push one another neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.
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The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.
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Life is not suffering it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.
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No need to feel brave or confident just behave that way.
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Wisdom is the use of knowledge
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I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.
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My parents, like others of The Greatest Generation who lived through the Great Depression and World War II, wanted to provide the best possible life for their children. My mother and father both attended college but dropped out to earn a living during the Depression, working the rest of their lives at blue-collar work.
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When you become fully responisble for your life, you can become fully human once you become human, you may discover what it mens to be a warrior.
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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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Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.
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Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life.
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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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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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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!
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This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.
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Enlightenment is not an attainment it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?
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