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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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Dan Millman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 22
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Daniel Jay Millman
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Live with a peaceful heart cultivate a warrior's spirit.
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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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Stay present. You'll always have time to worry later on if you want to.
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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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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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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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It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.
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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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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 you manage your money, you manage your life.
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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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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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Wisdom is the use of knowledge
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Freedom from mental distraction equals power.
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The only laws are paradox, humor and change.
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Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws of Spirit. But now I'm happy to share these four purposes of life that lend meaning and direction to anyone's life, especially those in transition, going through changes.
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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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Anybody can be happy when things are going well, and I've learned that. But when things aren't going well it draws out the inner warrior in us to radiate that and bring whatever happiness we can to the situation.
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To see where something leads, it's best to wait until you've reached the end.
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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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