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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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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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Bad people don't go to hell, they are already there.
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To see where something leads, it's best to wait until you've reached the end.
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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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The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?
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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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Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied that we have only to look, listen, and trust the love and wisdom of the Universal Spirit working through us all.
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Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.
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Process transforms any journey into a series of small steps, taken one by one, to reach any goal. Process transcends time, teaches patience, rests on a solid foundation of careful preparation, and embodies trust in our unfolding potential.
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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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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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The light will disturb us when we're comfortable, and comfort us when we're disturbed. We turn to spirit for help when our foundations are shaking only to find out that it is spirit who is shaking them!
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Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives.
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Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences....But the lessons of experience are hidden.
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Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions.
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Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act.
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This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.
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We discover our character through decisions under pressure.
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My life has been less like a light switch suddenly turning on, and more like a dimmer switch slowly turned up, over time, more in some moments than others.
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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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