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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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Dan Millman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 22
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Competitive Diver
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LA
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Daniel Jay Millman
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Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act.
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Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.
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When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside of us.
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When you lose your mind, you'll come to your senses.
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So trust the process of your life unfolding, and know with certainty, through the peaks and valleys of your journey, that your soul rests safe and secure in the arms of God.
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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 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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. . . Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.
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Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation
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In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.
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A Zen student asked his roshi the most important element of Zen.The roshi replied, Attention. Yes, thank you, the student replied. But can you tell me the second most important element?And the roshi replied, Attention.
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No need to feel brave or confident just behave that way.
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Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.
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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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This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.
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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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