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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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Daniel Jay Millman
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As we stop monitoring others' opinions, we connect with our heart's wisdom.
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Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.
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The world's a puzzle no need to make sense out of it. - Socrates
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Better never begin once begun, better finish.
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Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.
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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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As a peaceful warrior, I would choose when, where and how I would behave. With that commitment, I began to live the life of a warrior.
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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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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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When you lose your mind, you'll come to your senses.
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Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation
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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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There are no mistakes, only lessons. If you don't learn the lesson the first time, they get harder.
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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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Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act.
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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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everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.
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Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.
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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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