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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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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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As we stop monitoring others' opinions, we connect with our heart's wisdom.
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Carry your groceries, garden, and do other activities that keep you moving. You will add more years to your life and more life to your years.
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No amount of knowledge will nourish or sustain your spirit, it can never bring you ulimate happiness or peace. Life requires more that knowledge it requires intense feeling and constant energy. Life demands right action if knowledge is to come alive.
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Freedom from mental distraction equals power.
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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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Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act.
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Stay present. You'll always have time to worry later on if you want to.
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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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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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...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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Ultimately, fear of failure generates a vicious circle that creates what is most feared. To break this cycle, you need to make peace with failure. It isn't enough to merely tolerate it you need to appreciate the failure and use it.
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We discover our character through decisions under pressure.
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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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Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.
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In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.
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Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.
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Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.
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Process transforms any journey into a series of small steps, taken one by one, to reach any goal. Process transcends time, teaches patience, rests on a solid foundation of careful preparation, and embodies trust in our unfolding potential.
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