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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.
Dan Millman
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Dan Millman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 22
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Competitive Diver
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Daniel Jay Millman
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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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We are here to live moment by moment, and each moment brings a task, a challenge, a goal. It's good to have big goals, but we need to connect the dots between where we are and where we are going, one day, one moment at a 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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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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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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Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.
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Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act.
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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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Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?
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