Quote

This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.

Dan Millman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dan Millman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 22
Author
Competitive Diver
Motivational Speaker
Trampolinist
Writer
LA
California
Daniel Jay Millman
Life
Depends
Divine
Teacher
Classroom
Choices
Teachers
Learn
Daily
School
Planet
Need
Planets
Needs
Choice

More quotes by Dan Millman

Image
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.
Dan Millman
Image
When you lose your mind, you'll come to your senses.
Dan Millman
Image
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.
Dan Millman
Image
Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.
Dan Millman
Image
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.
Dan Millman
Image
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.
Dan Millman
Image
This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.
Dan Millman
Image
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.
Dan Millman
Image
Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.
Dan Millman
Image
Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.
Dan Millman
Image
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.
Dan Millman
Image
In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.
Dan Millman
Image
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?
Dan Millman
Image
While you fear missing a meal, you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.
Dan Millman
Image
Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences....But the lessons of experience are hidden.
Dan Millman
Image
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.
Dan Millman
Image
The world's a puzzle no need to make sense out of it. - Socrates
Dan Millman
Image
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.
Dan Millman
Image
The only laws are paradox, humor and change.
Dan Millman
Image
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.
Dan Millman