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Live with a peaceful heart cultivate a warrior's spirit.

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Dan Millman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 22
Author
Competitive Diver
Motivational Speaker
Trampolinist
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LA
California
Daniel Jay Millman
Live
Heart
Cultivate
Warrior
Peaceful
Spirit

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My parents, like others of The Greatest Generation who lived through the Great Depression and World War II, wanted to provide the best possible life for their children. My mother and father both attended college but dropped out to earn a living during the Depression, working the rest of their lives at blue-collar work.
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.
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While you fear missing a meal, you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.
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The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.
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No matter what we feel or know, no matter what our potential gifts or talents, only action brings them to life. Those of us who only think we understand concepts such as commitment, courage, and love, one day discover that we only know when we act doing becomes understanding.
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Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.
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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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Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.
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A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.
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Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
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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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As you manage your money, you manage your life.
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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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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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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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Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
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I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.
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Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.
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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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