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Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.

Dan Millman

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Dan Millman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 22
Author
Competitive Diver
Motivational Speaker
Trampolinist
Writer
LA
California
Daniel Jay Millman
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Around
Look
Eventually
Looks
Valuable
Meditation
Exercise
Open
Eyes

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Sports and sex and movies are not inherently bad - But for you they're addictions, not enjoyments. You use them to distract you from what you know you should do. Break free!
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Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act.
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Energy follows thought we move toward, but not beyond, what we can imagine. What we assume, expect, or believe creates and colors our experience. By expanding our deepest beliefs about what is possible, we change our experience of life.
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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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The world's a puzzle no need to make sense out of it. - Socrates
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There are no mistakes, only lessons. If you don't learn the lesson the first time, they get harder.
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Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you'll be free at last.
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Surrender means accepting this moment, this body, and this life with open arms. Surrender involves getting out of your own way and living in accord with a higher will, expressed as the wisdom of the heart. Far more than passive acceptance, surrender uses every challenge as a means of spiritual growth and expanded awareness.
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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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Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other.
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When running up a hill, it is all right to give up as many times as you wish-as long as your feet keep on moving.
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Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation
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Our practices - our most spiritual practices - are hanging laundry on the line, raising children, building strong relationships, practicing kindness as much as we can, striving for excellence in the workplace, and developing deeper self-knowledge. I wrote The Four Purposes of Life to assist in these endeavors.
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Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.
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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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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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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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