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Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.

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Dan Millman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 22
Author
Competitive Diver
Motivational Speaker
Trampolinist
Writer
LA
California
Daniel Jay Millman
Winning
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Moments
Excellence
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Everything you need to know is within you. Listen. Feel. Trust the body's wisdom.
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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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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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Live in the Moment, Empty Your Mind of the Trash Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge
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Peaceful warriors have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water clears. They remain unmoving until the right time, so the right action arises by itself. They do not seek fulfillment, but wait with open arms to welcome all things.
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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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Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.
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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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The only laws are paradox, humor and change.
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Carry your groceries, garden, and do other activities that keep you moving. You will add more years to your life and more life to your years.
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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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Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.
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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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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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The warrior is Here, Now.
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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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If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness if you want a peaceful world, make peace within.
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A jet plane cannot mow the lawn, but it can fly to distant destinations. Don't worry so much about what you can't do just do what you can as only you can do it.
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