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Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences....But the lessons of experience are hidden.

Dan Millman

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Dan Millman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 22
Author
Competitive Diver
Motivational Speaker
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LA
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Daniel Jay Millman
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As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water. Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?
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No need to feel brave or confident just behave that way.
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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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Our practices - our most spiritual practices - are hanging laundry on the line, raising children, building strong relationships, practicing kindness as much as we can, striving for excellence in the workplace, and developing deeper self-knowledge. I wrote The Four Purposes of Life to assist in these endeavors.
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In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.
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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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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.
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Stay present. You'll always have time to worry later on if you want to.
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The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?
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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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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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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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Freedom from mental distraction equals power.
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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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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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. . . 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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Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?
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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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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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There are no mistakes, only lessons. If you don't learn the lesson the first time, they get harder.
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