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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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Dan Millman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 22
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Competitive Diver
Motivational Speaker
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LA
California
Daniel Jay Millman
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The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.
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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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Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
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No matter what we feel or know, no matter what our potential gifts or talents, only action brings them to life. Those of us who only think we understand concepts such as commitment, courage, and love, one day discover that we only know when we act doing becomes understanding.
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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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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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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.
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Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank.
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Stay present. You'll always have time to worry later on if you want to.
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If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness if you want a peaceful world, make peace within.
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Better never begin once begun, better finish.
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Everything you need to know is within you. Listen. Feel. Trust the body's wisdom.
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Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.
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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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If you don't get what you want, you suffer if you get what you don't want, you suffer even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.
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