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Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.

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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
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Blessings
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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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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 universe does not judge us it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. Compassion is the recognition that we are each doing the best we can within the limits of our current beliefs and capacities.
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Here and now...breathe and relax...in battle and in life
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Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.
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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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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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When you lose your mind, you'll come to your senses.
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Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.
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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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This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.
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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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